Guide dogs in training visit Eugene Airport for security practice

Guide dogs in training visit Eugene Airport for security practice

Reported by: Chris McKee
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Updated: 5/14/2012 4:51 am
EUGENE, Ore. (KMTR) -- Real world training on Saturday for animals helping those with vision impairments.

Around half-a-dozen pups from various Guide Dogs for the Blind training groups hit the Eugene Airport for practice on Saturday, May 12th, 2012.

This is the first time volunteer trainers from Lane, Benton, Linn Douglas Counties have put the exercise together.

They're trying to get the dogs used to airport security procedures.


With about 15 months of training, the dogs will go out to new owners who have eye-sight impairments.

“They'll have harnesses and stuff on which are going to set off the security system so its probably good for them to get a good pat down and for them to know that this isn't such a big deal,” says Sue Burgess, leader of the Eugene Guide Dogs for the Blind training group.

“It's also a good chance for the TSA to get a chance to train their people with their procedures with dogs,” says Burgess.

The Eugene and other area branches of the Guide Dogs for the Blind training groups are looking for volunteers too.

If you want to help, call 503-668-2100 or visit their website at the following link: http://www.guidedogs.com/site/PageServer.

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Panzzer - 5/14/2012 2:12 PM
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Those perverted TSA goons are even groping the poor dogs!

angelgabe - 5/13/2012 3:10 PM
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Watch out, all of you impaired flyers, as the TSA will use ANY excuse to make your flying experience as unpleasant, embarrassing humiliating and difficult as they possibly can. My daughter flew out of the Eugene Airport recently. Her flight to SF was cancelled, they booked her another one, but that was cancelled as well. They didn’t tell her about the second cancelation, so when she got there, she had about 5 minutes to rush to catch the flight they put her on. She is pregnant, and as she lost her last pregnancy, opted out of the cancer causing scan, opting to have the pat down. The TSA agent, seeing her pregnant, knowing that she had only minutes until her flight left, and able to see her visibly shaking and stressed, yelled at her to sit and wait, and not move! The TSA agent, extremely unhurried, when there were several others to do the job, took her own sweet time getting the job done, and my daughter, literally had to RUN up the stairs to catch her flight before it took off without her! These TSA agents are WAY too obsessed with their power, and should be dealt with accordingly, and, in most cases, fired. The have absolutely NO common sense regarding common courtesy, which CAN be achieved even in the stressful security situations in airports.

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