{"id":28926,"date":"2023-03-02T00:43:53","date_gmt":"2023-03-02T00:43:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/2023\/03\/02\/britains-guide-dog-shortage-volunteers-increase-after-bbc-story\/"},"modified":"2023-03-02T00:43:53","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T00:43:53","slug":"britains-guide-dog-shortage-volunteers-increase-after-bbc-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/?p=28926","title":{"rendered":"Britain&#8217;s guide dog shortage: Volunteers increase after BBC story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">BBC Correspondent Sean Dilley told the story of his last walk with his guide dog Sammy in September 2022. Sammy retired after more than eight years of service.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Following the coverage, the charity Guide Dogs has had a record number of applications to volunteer, with more than 4,500 people coming forward.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Before the pandemic there were around 5,000 guide dog partnerships &#8211; now there are 3,695. More than one in five people who had a guide dog before then now do not.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Since then, the BBC has followed the stories of puppy raisers, fosterers and guide dog users to understand what needs to be done to fix Britain&#8217;s guide dog shortage. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\"><b class=\"ssrcss-hmf8ql-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Watch the full documentary <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/bbc.in\/3mhT9pG\" class=\"ssrcss-k17ofw-InlineLink e1no5rhv0\">here<\/a><b class=\"ssrcss-hmf8ql-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\"><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">Video by Gem O&#8217;Reilly and Sean Dilley<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-64806166?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=KARANGA\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] BBC Correspondent Sean Dilley told the story of his last walk with his guide dog Sammy in September 2022. Sammy retired after more than eight years of service. Following &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28927,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28926"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}