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New Paltz woman provides guidance
for the guides
BY CATHERINE PORTMAN-LAUX
Kathy Zubrycki
oversees the training of instructors who train guide
dogs and their future owners.
The New Paltz resident commutes to the national/international
headquarters of Guiding Eyes for the Blind in Yorktown
Heights, where she is director of training and admissions.
Working in the field for 32 years, she grew up admiring
guide dogs and instructors in her native Morristown,
N. J., location of the first U.S. guide dog school.
Training involves a three-way scrutiny of instructors,
guide dogs and their future owners, Zubrycki explained.
“An instructor begins as an entry instructor assistant,”
she said. “Each is involved in general care of the
dogs and kennel operation. They spend one day a week
in our veterinarian hospital and are also schooled
in how to manage large populations of dogs in a kennel
environment. Newcomers are assigned to teams of instructors.
“It is not easy work. They put in many miles. Each instructor
is assigned 10 dogs, with five months to prepare
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