A very interesting article from Paws for Life USA about keeping your service dog safe during the Halloween season. Click on the link below to read the full article https://animalsdeservebetter.org/halloween-keeping-your-service-dog-safe/ READ MORE
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Great sign for city parks etc! to keep the paws of our pets safe when walking outside
A great idea for a sign to put around the city to protect our dog’s paws from high temperature asphalt while they are walking outside. The sign says: HOT PAVEMENT Air Temp 77, Asphalt Temp 125 Air Temp 86, Asphalt Temp 135 Air Temp 87, Asphalt Temp 143 If it is too hot for READ MORE
Article: A guide dog user perspective on fake service dogs
Hello everyone, We would like to share an article from a graduate from the Seeing Eye who has a Golden retriever guide dog called Chester. The article explains and shows her perspective of some of the hassles everyday we have from pets and fake service dogs. “This is Chester (A golden retriever service dog) In his READ MORE
Valentine’s Day Special Story: Blind Golden Retriever Gets His Own Guide Dog Puppy – Copyright by UNILAD, Niamh Shackleton
A blind golden retriever has got his own guide dog puppy, and if that doesn’t melt your heart then nothing will. 11-year-old Tao lost his eyesight last year after being diagnosed with glaucoma. This prompted his owner Melanie Jackson to find a furry friend to guide him around. Melanie, from Somerset, UK, has since welcomed READ MORE
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all of our DGUNH members
Guide dog Christmas Poem ‘Twas the night before Christmas, the kennels were still, with most dogs asleep, having eaten their fill. The labs were sprawled out, quite snug in their beds, While visions of milk bones danced in their heads. The Goldens and Labs were curled up on the floor, some twitched in their sleep READ MORE
Amazon aids blind customers with Alexa-enabled devices – by Dan Berthiaume from CSA, The business of retail
A new feature of the Echo Show smart home camera enables blind and low-vision customers to hold up an item to the camera and ask, “Alexa, what am I holding?” The Alexa voice assistant service then helps identify the item through advanced computer vision and machine learning technologies for object recognition. “The whole idea for READ MORE
Smart Home Technology Can Help!
Article published on Future in Sight by Beth Daisy, Supervisor of Occupational Therapy | Oct 4, 2021 | Think you don’t need a smart home device? Click on the following link to learn more about this wonderful technology https://futureinsight.org/blog-and-news/smart-home-technology-can-help/ READ MORE
Our New “Our Dogs” section is up and running
The below links are for our member’s service and/or guide dogs living or have passed over the rainbow bridge. To reach our section, please select it from our menu bar or click on the following link: https://dogguideusersnh1.org/?page_id=235 READ MORE
With mushrooms sprouting, pet owners urged to take care
Some mushrooms can be dangerous for pets MANCHESTER, N.H. — Article by WMUR July 30, 2021, Mike Cronin – News Reporter New Hampshire’s rainy July has meant a lot of mushrooms are popping up, prompting warnings for pet owners. Mushroom farmers said the Northeast as a whole is seeing an uptick of the fungus because READ MORE
Welcome to our NEW updated Website
Hi DGUNH members This is Larry (DGUNH VP) and Takashi (Webmaster) and we would like to announce the opening of our newly and more accessible DGUNH webpage. We have worked very hard with the board to make this more user friendly, we will be keeping you updated with the latest news from our group plus news/activities related READ MORE