Guiding Paws of Delaware 4-H Club

Serving New Castle County at large

Meetings

June - August
Association for the Blind Summer Camp

Leaders

Club Activities

Monthly meetings provide training and socialization for puppies (and members!) Field trips are meant to give the puppies experience with the sights, smells and sounds of the types of places they will lead their masters. Examples include shopping malls, movie theaters, libraries, sporting events, community events, parks, museums and nursing homes.

Club Recognition

Members of the club have received such awards as the Presidential Service Award. In 2004 we received the 4-H Community Service Award, and in 2005 the Governor's Service Award. Other members, as high school seniors, have also earned college scholarships for raising two or more puppies.

How to Join in the Fun

For more information on raising a seeing eye puppy, visit www.seeingeye.org.

Learn more about the Guiding Paws 4-H Club by contacting NCC 4-H:
4-h@udel.edu or 302-831-8965.

History and Projects

The club has raised puppies as a joint effort with Seeing Eye, Inc. of Morristown, New Jersey since 1942— thousands over the years! Once the puppies leave their 4-H homes, they return to Seeing Eye, Inc. to receive intensive training for final placement with blind persons throughout the U.S. and Canada.

Although the overall project of the club is to raise puppies, club members may also work on other 4-H projects that interest them.

Puppy raisers in New York

Hank, Holiday and Horton

Guiding Paws visit Air Mobility Command Museum at Dover Air Force Base