Guide Dogs’ Canine Science Team is trialling a new way of understanding puppy personalities. The project, called Puppy Cognition, assesses a seven-week-old puppy’s reactions to a set series of games, objects and human interactions, called tasks.
We’ve had fantastic feedback about our Name a Puppy scheme over the years, but with technology progressing, and our services expanding, we wanted to reflect this and we’re really excited to be launching our reinvigorated scheme.
In April 2022 we joined with another seven leading sight loss organisations to make a public commitment to increasing the number of blind and partially sighted people employed within our sector, including at senior management level.
New research released by Guide Dogs has revealed that two in three primary and secondary school teachers lack confidence in teaching children with a vision impairment.
More than 200 people ran for Guide Dogs in the London Landmarks Half Marathon at the weekend including our very own Chief Executive, Tom Wright.
We surveyed 2,000 people about their eye health and the results were surprising.
Watch us and our well-behaved guide dogs appear on Channel 4’s TV show all about dogs, ‘Crufts’
New research shows that our nation’s dogs display signs of having poor mental health. We share ideas on how to stimulate your dogs mental health.
