I was stunned. Ava had found someone I didn’t even know was going to be in the cafe.
Ava just stood wagging her tail like “see it is a friend! Baby is friend! I found them!”
Then my antenatal class Mums turned up, I waved goodbye to V & had a lovely catch up with the group 4/
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I’m blind & here is a story about how my Guide Dog Ava is supporting me to be a parent.
We went to a local cafe to meet our antenatal class Mums.
On entering the cafe I told Ava to “find friends” & she marched me towards a pram & a baby, but it wasn’t my group 1/
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I have limited vision so knew it was a pram & person with a baby but they didn’t greet us, so not our friend, I apologised & told Ava to look again. But Ava was insistent.
Ava just kept sniffing the other pram.
I was really embarrassed & tried to turn around. 2/
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Suddenly my friend V appears & says “oh hi I didn’t know you were coming here today!”
V was there by coincidence.
So it turns out Ava had taken me to “friends”, she had recognised the pram & baby! But V was in the loo & her nanny, who I haven’t met, was holding the baby 3/
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Apart from my partner, who Ava can find on command, I always thought Ava finds people because they greet us & she takes me to the people waving & saying hi!
I had no idea she could independently recognise & find another baby! 5/
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Once again, I am amazed by my beautiful smart girl
@GuideDogAva
She is the reason I can be an independent, confident & very sociable blind Mum!
The best big sister with paws ever. 6/
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Video shows Guide Dog Ava’s face lying at Little One’s feet. Little One is in his play gym excitedly babbling & wriggling.
He is unintentionally repeatedly kicking Ava in the snoot & face.
She just lies there occasionally adjusting but completely tolerating the gentle kicks 7/7
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I’m so glad our little story has brought joy to people!
You can follow Ava’s adventures on
@GuideDogAva
same handle on TikTok & Insta, there are lots of photos & videos!
If you want to support future pawfessionals like Ava you can donate to
@guidedogs
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@BlondeHistorian
Oh I absolutely love this. What a clever girl to know the baby smelled "right" even out of context.
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@BlondeHistorian
So clever! I bet she was a smug wee dug having been proven right too.
I suppose dogs’ ridiculously inpressive sense of smell opens up a whole world that we can’t understand. I follow a page that trains medical alert sogs and they’re also such clever doggos.
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