Introducing the NEW homes at Fox Run.

Sherrill Platt with
Kapten, now a
selected breeding
dad for Leader Dogs
for the Blind

Leader Dog
trainer Karen
West and
Tzeitel

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Vicki Salinger
with Darwin,
a puppy
they raised
for Leader
Dogs for the
Blind and
kept when
she didn’t
qualify for the
program.

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children, ages 4-12, with autism.

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heeled beautifully at my husband’s side
the entire way. The support the commu-
nity provides while training these dogs is
remarkable.”
It cost approximately $40,000 to raise
and train each dog for Leader Dogs.
These dogs are provided to clients at no
cost and without any government sub-
sidies.
When Vicki Salinger’s daughter was in
the 10th grade, one of her school projects
was a report about how to raise a puppy
for Leader Dogs.
“She read everything she could find
about Leader Dog puppies and recorded
data about our puppy’s progress,” recalls
Salinger of Southfield. “That was the
beginning. Two years later, we raised
another puppy and then three more.
We ended up keeping one of the pup-
pies, Darwin, who didn’t qualify for the
program.”

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Oak Park, a volunteer puppy raiser and
puppy program counselor for Leader
Dogs for the Blind. “But it’s a labor
of love. I just returned Levi, our 20th
puppy, for his formal training.
“My job is to teach the puppy basic
obedience and good manners, and
expose him to new experiences including
walking in crowds, walking on slippery
floors, taking him on public transporta-
tion, and making sure he’s accustomed
to loud noises or getting bumped by a
shopping cart,” Platt explains. “When
Young Israel of Oak Park holds a special
event, we attend the buffet making sure
he knows better than taking food off the
table or pulling me to another person.”
Besides raising puppies, the Platt fam-
ily also hosts a selected breeding dad
and provides a foster home for the life
of the dog. Kapten has been with the
Platts for six years. Leader Dog provides
veterinary care while host families are
responsible for all costs related to routine
care, feeding and transporting the dog to
the Rochester Hills campus.
Karen West of Beverly Hills has raised
puppies for nine years for Leader Dogs
and is also a volunteer puppy counselor.
As puppy counselors, she and Platt serve
as mentors for other puppy raisers, give
obedience classes and arrange for social-
ization events for the puppies.
“Recent socialization opportuni-
ties included touring Cranbrook
Gardens, a scavenger hunt in downtown
Birmingham, riding an Amtrak train
to Detroit, visiting Temple Israel and a
nursery school, and going for a group
walk around Quarton Lake,” West says.
“We also take our puppies to grocery
stores, banks, synagogues, restaurants,
libraries, ball games and to the theater,”
she says. “My husband frequently takes
Tzeitel with him to work. There was a
mandatory fire drill at GM, which meant
my husband and Tzeitel had to calmly
walk down eight flights of stairs together
in the midst of a very large crowd of
other people using the stairs. Tzeitel

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