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Bed and Breakfast and weekend foster parents

 

Experienced dog lovers required to provide overnight and weekend care for assistance dogs in training!

Volunteering to provide overnight  'Bed & Breakfast'  accommodation for advanced dogs during training is very important to our work. This rewarding role follows on from the vital Volunteer Puppy Parents role, where dogs are now approximately 14 months old and entails having a dog from 5pm until 8.30am on weekdays, and possibly all weekend.


The Canine Partners B&B programme has been set up because we believe it is conducive to our advanced dogs for their training to be continued while they are in a home environment on the evenings and weekends (for an average 20 weeks each). The dogs are house trained, can be left alone for short periods of time and are very well behaved. B&B or weekend volunteer foster parents would ideally meet the following criteria:

 

  • The *majority of applicants must live locally to Midhurst at our West Sussex Training Centre and/or be able to bring the dog to the training centre by 9.15am and collect no later than 5pm on weekdays
  • Have prior experience of owning and handling dogs
  • You must have a secure, dog-friendly garden
  • You must be happy to maintain the standard of training of the dog they are looking after (training will be given)
  • You must be physically strong enough to manage a young fit dog
  • You should have access to transport suitable for carrying the dog

* There is some need for Foster Parents near the Puppy Training Satellites to cover holidays etc. Canine Partners will provide food, bedding and equipment for the dog and reasonable expenses (such as mileage), can be claimed back from the charity.


Training Teams Manager at Canine Partners comments, “Being a B&B volunteer is ideal for people who want to look after a dog without the full time responsibility. All our dogs need is a good home for the evenings during their advanced training and the volunteers don’t even have to walk them!”


For further information and an application form, please call The Training Department on 08456 580 480 or contact us.

Canine Partners for Independence. Registered in England No. 2516146. Charity Commission Registered No. 803680. Scottish Registered Charity No. SCO39050

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