Assistance dogs

Joanna Lubkin, a Unitarian Universalist minister, has chronic pain and fatigue and relies on her service dog, a 4-year-old black Labrador named Sully, to pick up items she drops, press elevator buttons and brace her when her body weakens. She never travels without him.

Lara, the black labrador who became a symbol of hope for blind and visually impaired people in Greece by becoming the country's first trained guide dog, died on Tuesday night, aged 16.

As the president of Turkey's Guide Dog Association, I often need to travel locally and internationally to promote our work. I feel blessed to have the opportunity to visit these places and connect to the people who live there. As a visually impaired traveler, visiting an unfamiliar place can cause me some anxiety if it does not have the facilities to accommodate me.

Nine dogs with a cause need help.We are looking for foster hosts for small labradors, who will someday become guide dogs for blind people, reported bTV.

At the moment they are extremely sweet black and brown brothers and sisters.

People who will give them a temporary home will definitely have more responsibilities than the owners of the other dogs.

The Guide Dogs Association of Turkey is the 14th Changemaker in the eighth season of the Sabancı Foundation Turkey's Changemakers Program.

According to the Family and Social Policies Ministry, there are 750,000 people in Turkey with visual disabilities including persons with low vision. 

We have heard of the mighty K-9 units with the hero-dogs that arrest villains, save people, find the dope. We have all seen the smart guide-dogs that help disabled people, too.
Their services are invaluable and they are needed more and more. They become family members to the people they work with and real professional partners for the units they serve.

Şenol Özbakan, a former ship skipper who lives in a minibus with 12 abandoned golden retriever and Rottweiler dogs that he adopted in the western province of Muğla's Bodrum district, has been hospitalized. 

Özbakan and his dogs, nicknamed the "Golden Gang," have thousands of followers from Turkey and all over the world on social media.

Sniffer police dogs trained at a facility near the Special Police Forces center in Ankara, which was heavily bombed during the failed coup attempt on July 15, have begun a rehabilitation program due to disorders triggered by the trauma. 

The Eyes on Four Paws Foundation has organized a photo exhibition entitled ''Awakening''. Visitors will have the opportunity to visit the exhibition from March 30 to April 8 in Sofia Hall at the Capital's Library, located on the central Slaveikov Square.

A visually impaired woman was denied entry into any shop or restaurant in the Aegean province of Aydın with her guide dog that was given to her in France.