It was nice to take a break and see some dogs. There was a brief presentation at the beginning, and then the participants were allowed to mingle with the dogs and their keepers.

Although I had attended a similar presentation last year by other representatives of the same group that brought the dogs, I didn’t know that the organization that ran the program gave the resulting guide dogs to people who needed them for free. The presenter mentioned this after saying that the a trained guide dog was worth tens of thousands of dollars of work and time (I forget the exact number of the estimate, somewhere around 50,000 I think). Hearing this, I felt appreciation for the people involved.

Although one would think that getting to take care of a labrador puppy during school would be fun, I’m sure that being one of the keepers is a difficult job in addition to being a privilege. I felt that the keepers were more selfless than the average person.