Yellow Guide Dog in harness. Text reads: Guide Dogs Are Always Welcome

Guide Dogs Are Always Welcome

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Guide Dogs WA has launched a positive new public access rights campaign, Guide & Assistance Dogs Are Always Welcome. 

We are asking Western Australians to learn more about: how to interact with Guide & Assistance Dogs and their handlers, how to identify Guide & Assistance Dogs, and how to welcome Guide & Assistance Dogs into their venues, restaurants and rideshares with open hearts (no hugs while they’re working please).

A recent survey by Guide Dogs Australia indicated that over a third of Guide & Assistance Dog Users were refused entry to a public venue or rideshare in the past year alone.

How does being refused entry affect a Guide or Assistance Dog Handler?

Guide and Assistance Dogs are matched with people living with no or low vision, disability or illness. Being refused entry into a venue or rideshare may result in a Guide or Assistance Dog handler feeling: embarrassed, humiliated, frustrated, scared, isolated, unsafe, confused, angry and hesitant to leave their home in future.

This is the opposite of the independence, confidence, inclusion and safety that having a Guide or Assistance Dog is meant to provide. We must work together as a community to make certain that people using Guide & Assistance Dogs Are Always Welcome.

Free Resources

We can all do our part to show that Guide & Assistance Dogs Are Always Welcome. Please share the message on social media, download and display these free posters, stickers or email signatures in your workplace or public venue. Do what you can to help us spread the word to all Western Australians.

 

Social Media Content

Download our Social Media Key Messages and Content

A4 posters

Email signature

Change your email signature at your workplace, to show that Guide & Assistance Dogs Are Welcome

Stickers

woman at an office reception desk displays guide and assistance dogs are always welcome sticker
an orange sticker on a glass workplace door with text guide and assistance dogs are welcome here

Proudly show your support on your business, venue, restaurant or rideshare. Complete the form below and we’ll send you a high quality, 150mm x 150mm outdoor sticker to display in the entrance of your venue, workplace or rideshare (one per business/venue/rideshare).

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