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Leader Dogs for the Blind seeks host homes for breeding dogs, puppies
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ROCHESTER HILLS — Leader Dogs for the Blind is looking to the community to host a breeding dog in their home, a volunteer opportunity that the nonprofit says is now more accessible for a variety of lifestyles. Leader Dogs’ breeding program was established in the 1980s, according to Dana Hunter, Leader Dogs breeding manager. “One of the reasons that we first started a breeding program was so that we could better ensure the quality of the dogs that we were providing to our clients. We know, through science and practice, that the best way to care for dogs and raise litters of puppies is to do it in a home environment, because that’s eventually where these dogs are going to live in the future,” she said. “It’s the sole source of how we acquire guide dogs for our clients.” Previously, Leader Dogs hosts could choose to welcome either a breeding mom
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BY MARY BETH ALMOND malmond@candgnews.com
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ABOVE: A proud yellow Labrador retriever Leader Dogs for the Blind mom shows off her new litter of Labrador/golden retriever crosses. RIGHT: A Black Labrador retriever mom takes time out from a walk for a photo. When not in season or pregnant, Leader Dogs moms enjoy their walks as much as most family pets. Photos provided by Leader Dogs for the Blind
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ROCHESTER — The city of Rochester is updating its parks and recreation master plan to help shape goals, objectives and potential projects for the next five years. The city’s current parks and recreation master plan — which provided a vision for the city’s parks and recreation facilities, operations, maintenance, and enhancements from 2019 to 2023 — will expire this December. The new plan, city officials said, will serve as a playbook for community building as it relates to parks and recreation over the next five years and be instrumental in helping the city secure potential recreation grant funding from the Michigan Department of Natural Resources, and other agencies and foundations. Initially, McKenna & Associates — the firm which provided the last parks and recreation master plan — had