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Speaker 1: Today's International Guide Dog Day, celebrating the important role guide

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Speaker 1: dogs play and supporting people all around the world. And

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Speaker 1: joining us in the studio is Katie Crawford, who is

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Speaker 1: a guide dog mobility instructor, and Winston, who is a

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Speaker 1: facility dog. Good morning to you both.

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Speaker 2: Morning to you both, Katie.

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Speaker 1: What is the difference between a guide dog and a

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Speaker 1: facility dog.

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Speaker 2: So, a facility dog is a dog that works in

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Speaker 2: different facilities. So, for example, Winston works at Perth Children's

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Speaker 2: Court and his primary role is to provide comfort for

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Speaker 2: witnesses or any other people visiting the court.

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Speaker 1: I never even thought of, you know, that sort of

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Speaker 1: place for them to be, but of course.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we've just recently set up the facility dog program

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Speaker 2: and it's working really successfully at Perth Children's Court. And

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Speaker 2: then a guide dog is there primarily to work with

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Speaker 2: people with low vision or no vision as their guide

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Speaker 2: and their mobility age. R.

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Speaker 1: Winston's a beautiful black lab guy. Dogs still Labradors.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, most of our guide dogs are pure Labradors or

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Speaker 2: Labradors crossed with Golden Retrievers and they're either what we

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Speaker 2: call yellow or black.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, he's very much a black one.

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Speaker 2: He is a very waggy one.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, So how old is Winston and when's the sort

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Speaker 4: of working age? What's the best age for that process

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Speaker 4: to start.

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Speaker 2: Yeap, So Winston's actually a little bit older. He's seven

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Speaker 2: and a half years old. But we start their training

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Speaker 2: right from birth and around the age of two they

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Speaker 2: come in, sorry, around the age of fourteen to sixteen months,

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Speaker 2: they come in for their formal training, and all dogs

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Speaker 2: have formal training, and around the age of two to

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Speaker 2: two and a half they go out as a working dog.

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Speaker 1: It's I'm always amazed that people who do take on

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Speaker 1: the role of housing a dog that's been traded in

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Speaker 1: because I'm a shocker.

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Speaker 3: I'm one of those people.

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Speaker 1: As soon as the animals in my house, I want

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Speaker 1: it to be Yeah, So thank you to those people

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Speaker 1: who are able to do that. Guide dogs are allowed anywhere,

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Speaker 1: aren't they correct? But this doesn't necessarily happen, and I

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Speaker 1: think this is one of the things that we want

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Speaker 1: to highlight on International Guide Dog Day. They are legally

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Speaker 1: allowed to get in your taxi, on your bus, into

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Speaker 1: your restaurant. You don't really get to refuse, but people do,

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Speaker 1: don't they exactly?

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Speaker 2: They do so International Guide Dog's Day for US is

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Speaker 2: raising awareness for access rights and all of our working dogs,

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Speaker 2: both guide dogs and assistance dogs. It is an offense

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Speaker 2: to refuse.

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Speaker 3: Entry, but a lot of our dogs still.

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Speaker 2: Do get refusal and that has a big impact on

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Speaker 2: the handler, be extremely embarrassing and it can put them

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Speaker 2: off going out and.

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Speaker 3: About debilitating for them.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, because if you're planning a dat maybe you're going

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Speaker 1: to a restaurant or going to a shopping center to

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Speaker 1: do some shopping, and you've planned this, and you've planned

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Speaker 1: it because legally you are entitled to do it as

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Speaker 1: much as the next person, and then on a whim

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Speaker 1: someone goes, no, not today, might come here. Yeah, that

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Speaker 1: would put you off wanting to make those plans.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and it can be really upsetting, and especially for

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Speaker 2: guide dogs. The whole purpose is so that people can

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Speaker 2: have independence and freedom and go anywhere that they're like,

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Speaker 2: and when they're turned away it can be quite distressing

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Speaker 2: for some.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely teddy there.

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Speaker 4: I take it this training is really quite full on

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Speaker 4: and comprehensive, and there'd be the odd dog that doesn't

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Speaker 4: make it through.

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Speaker 3: I take it correct. Correct.

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Speaker 2: We do have dogs that are reclassified into different roles.

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Speaker 2: Not all dogs are suited as guides. The training is

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Speaker 2: quite intense and complex. It starts from when they're born basically,

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Speaker 2: but they go into their formal training and learn guiding

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Speaker 2: skills around the age of sixteen months.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: So sometimes just the temperament of a certain dog just yeah. So, yeah,

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Speaker 3: we have different roles for different dogs.

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Speaker 2: We have obviously, Winston's a facility dog and he's a

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Speaker 2: beautiful natured boy, very gentle and calm and perfect nature

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Speaker 2: working in the children's court. And we have other dogs

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Speaker 2: at suit being an autism assistance dog as well.

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Speaker 1: Maybe some dogs are just too cuddly because they do

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Speaker 1: have to you know, they have to think I'm at work,

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Speaker 1: I have to end.

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Speaker 3: They might just want to go and put their head

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Speaker 3: on you know, someone's respon. They haven't failed as a dog.

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Speaker 2: And we've got the role of a companion dog. So

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Speaker 2: these dogs go out as companions to people who may

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Speaker 2: have illness or disability.

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Speaker 1: How can It's a nonprofit organization, isn't it?

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Speaker 3: How can people support it?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? So we've got lots of different fundraising programs that

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Speaker 2: people can support us by. It costs over fifty thousand

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Speaker 2: dollars to greed, raise and train a guide dog. So

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Speaker 2: people can sponsor a dog and name a dog. But

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Speaker 2: we also have people who can regularly donate with the

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Speaker 2: put Pals program. We have lots of collection boxes around

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Speaker 2: WA and people can hold events well and do fundraising events.

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Speaker 3: What a great gift for you know?

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Speaker 1: And how are you looking for a gift for someone

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Speaker 1: that you know has everything? You don't know what to

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Speaker 1: gear them to sponsor a dog in their name and

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Speaker 1: then they can. Yeah, that's a gift that keeps on giving.

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Speaker 2: It is and it's nice because it's then a story

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Speaker 2: behind each dog and obviously the handle handle of knights

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Speaker 2: to know how the dog was named, and it's usually

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Speaker 2: after a person love. And also we have a lot

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Speaker 2: of people who leave a gift in their will.

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Speaker 4: Yes, yeah, absolutely, yes, people they love for animals. So

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Speaker 4: how did you get involved in this code because we

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Speaker 4: can see your passion.

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Speaker 2: Yes, well it's a bit of a story. I actually

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Speaker 2: you can probably tell them from the UK. So I

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Speaker 2: originally worked for guide dogs in England, but I have

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Speaker 2: grown up with guide dogs in my family because my

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Speaker 2: mum was blind herself, so I've always sort of lived

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Speaker 2: around guide dogs and had a passion for it, and yeah,

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Speaker 2: just ended up working for Guide Dogs UK and training

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Speaker 2: up to be a Guide Dog mobility instructor.

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Speaker 3: Brilliant.

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Speaker 1: Well, it's a beautiful, wonderful, fantastic thing you do. And

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Speaker 1: thank you so much for bringing Winston in today.

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Speaker 2: It is welcome. He's enjoyed himself.

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Speaker 1: Said you're not to take Winston the International Guide Dog

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Speaker 1: Day and the message today is just remember guide dogs

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Speaker 1: are welcome anywhere in fake paper. Yeah they are legally

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Speaker 1: allowed anywhere, but they're welcome.

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Speaker 4: And if there's any way you can give, that would

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Speaker 4: be wonderful. It doesn't have to be thousands of dollars

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Speaker 4: or anything, but you can get them involved and just

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Speaker 4: give a bit and you might have been able to

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Speaker 4: go that next step.

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Speaker 2: And yeah and nothing come. We're hanging out at Belmont

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Speaker 2: Forum today.

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Speaker 3: So they'll be with Winston. Yeah, so you've got to

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Speaker 3: go and check your wish this gortous. Winston's got a

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Speaker 3: big day, Malti. Oh he loves it. Katie, Thank you.

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Speaker 2: So much, Thank you very much for having all of us.

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Speaker 3: Katie