Qualified guide dog November 2021. Loves looking after owner Roz, meeting friends in the park and hanging out with retired guide dog Daisy and rescue dog Sam
Introducing @guidedogs guide dog Bailey to Twitter. Bailey is a 3 year old golden retriever who looks after guide dog owner Roz. Follow Bailey to seewhat he gets up to both on and off duty. Bailey is based in the @GuideDogsSE area.
ALT Golden retriever Bailey sitting in a park. He is smiling and showing the beautiful feathers on his tail.
Guide dog owners “take their lives into their hands” when encountering pavement parked vehicles. Check out this piece from @itvnews highlighting the dangers of pavement parking.
itv.com/news/granada/2024-09…
Bailey on a trip to IKEA. He decided I needed to sit on every chair indicating by laying his head on the seat. He picked out this toy which was a retriever puppy. Sadly it wasn’t suitable for Bailey as he is a soft toy destructor.
Bailey playing with his siblings when he was still with his @guidedogs mum so under 7 weeks old. There were 8 puppies all together with 4 progressing to become guide dogs, one a guide dog mum. The guide dogs success rate was lower than usual due to the disruption of the pandemic
ALT There are 4 golden retriever puppies playing with various toys in the garden there is a rope toy and a red chew toy. Hard to tell which one is Bailey but my guess he is out there in front!
Met up with Bailey’s puppy raiser with her @guidedogs puppy Gemma. She also has a 9 week pup called Lisa and turns out Bailey is her half uncle. We think Gemma may have out posed Bailey. Pics have ALT description.
ALT 2 ladies sitting at a table. On left lady is wearing blue dress and jacket with white labradoodle puppy in training Gemma. On right lady is wearing brown blouse and jeans holding golden retriever guide dog Bailey
ALT White labradoodle puppy in training Gemma and golden retriever guide dog Bailey demonstrating Find a Chair on 2 wooden chairs with padded blue seats.
ALT White labradoodle puppy in training Gemma and golden retriever guide dog Bailey sitting in front of of display of glasses including one called Bailey
ALT 9 week old guide dog puppy Lisa with her head on a donut toy. She is a black Labrador X golden retriever
Ideas for new Paralympic sports. How about Paralympic guiding using an obstacle course with points for style, execution and degree of difficulty. Bailey has started training and is aiming for gold.🤣🤣🤣
Pic shows Bailey in advanced @guidedogs training with 4 traffic cones
Bailey is starring in the latest @guidedogs Autumn raffle. He regularly appears in Guide Dogs advertisements as he is so photogenic plus his puppy raiser is a brilliant photographer.
Every year our village has a Hare Trail of amazing creations in front gardens. People are invited to follow the trail and vote for their favourite. Bailey’s vote went to the beach as he liked the look of the toys. I was blown away by Mary Poppins!
It seems Jennie is now receiving fan mail!
I was incredibly heartened to have seen this in by inbox from William, helping raise awareness for @guidedogs 🐶
ALT Giving a guide dog to someone blind
Does not give them sight to see,
But the dog offers friendship and courage
That they need to get out and be free.
Close your eyes for one whole day
I dare you! Go on! Have a bash,
Then maybe for once you will realise
The reason the blind need your cash.
Put your hand into your pocket or purse
A few small coins you may find,
To you they might be nothing much
But priceless to those who are blind.
So when you see a plastic guide dog
Don't walk past this dog but instead,
Put into your hand a few precious coins
And then pat the dog on its head.
By
William McKechnie