The worth of 200,000, the guide dog is really so expensive?

Guide dog is a "product" with zero fault tolerance rate

On September 4th, the guide dog Dortst, a blind man in Suzhou, Anhui, was abducted near his shop.

Mr. Jiang told the media that Dost 3 years old was adopted from a Chinese guide dog Dalian training base. When he was lost, he was not working. The car left.

After the incident, Mr. Jiang reported the police, and then a lawyer said that the guide dog was worth 200,000 yuan, and the amount involved was particularly significant. The criminals of the theft of the guide dog may face more than 15 years in prison.

I do n’t know if it was forced to investigate the pressure of public opinion or police investigation. Two days after Dopes were abducted, a man took the initiative to send the dog to the police station. The police eventually sent Dost to Mr. Jiang's home.

The guide dog was lost and recovered, and the seemingly perfect reunion ending did not calm down public opinion.

Is a guide dog 200,000? Is this a carefully planned scam?

200,000, maybe not enough

"Dost has found it. It's good. Thank you for your concern for the police and all walks of life." The person in charge of the Chinese guide dog Dalian training base (hereinafter referred to as the "base") was said. Jingyu.

"Because the specific loss scenes and situations are not clear, the reason for the loss of Doster cannot be objectively judged, but it can be guaranteed that the guide dogs that are finally delivered to blind friends through our training are absolutely impossible in the working state. Take it away by others. "Wang Jingyu said to China News Weekly.

Wang Jingyu admits that since the base was officially put into use in 2006, the dispute about guide dogs has always existed. Among them, the most controversial is the cost of raising and raising. Many people do not believe that a guide dog will cost 200,000 yuan.

Wang Jingyu introduced to China News Weekly that training a qualified guide dog includes three parts: dog training costs, material donations and scientific research funds.

Taking 2021 as an example, the base is 105 dog training, 40 graduates, and the total training cost of the base is 6.84 million yuan. Of the 40 dogs who finally graduated, 35 were adopted to adopt jobs through the matching training with blind people. They all spread it. The training cost of a single guide dog reached 196,000 yuan.

"The larger training cost is the salary, dog food and supplementary food, dog medical and medicine." Wang Jingyu said that if you calculate the scientific research funds and other projects, train a qualified guide dog. Essence

"The cost of 200,000 yuan is real, but to say that we are deceiving and cheating, this cannot be standing. Because all the qualified guide dogs delivered to blind friends, we will not get it."

Blind people can finally receive the guide dogs who hold the certificate for free through the procedures such as application, queuing, training, etc., but due to the high elimination rate of guide dog training, the blind people applying for adoption of the guidance dog now need to queue for at least three years to obtain the guidance to obtain the guidance Blind dog.

In the 16 years since its establishment in 2006, the base has successfully trained a total of 288 guidance dogs, and the elimination rate in training was as high as 70%-80%. Through years of research and experience accumulation, the elimination rate of guide dogs is still around 50%.

The training of guide dogs is very strict. In addition to learning more than 30 passwords, it is necessary to generate conditional reflexes to complete obstacles to the obstacle road surface. Dogs that cannot complete the training will be eliminated.

In addition, "there is a tendency to attack", "too tight personality", "strong anxiety", "fear of cars", "afraid of other animals", "unable to control your mouth to eat at will" ... will all become the reason for the guide dog to be eliminated.

Because of the special nature of guide dogs, they are neither a guard dog nor a pet dog. They must choose mild relatives and no aggressive dog species. The training -blind dogs must even be recorded for three consecutive generations without attacking humans.

"Through our research, Golden Retriever tour dogs, Labrador hounds, giant poodles, boxer dogs and other dog species are more suitable as guide dogs. Due to the strict selection of the base, the golden retriever tour dogs and Labu have been used in recent years. The two dog breeds of the Latado Hound are descendants of breeding of their own breeding dogs. "Wang Jingyu said.

The core reason behind the training cost is low, and the core reason behind the training cost is "zero to the fault tolerance rate". If the guide dog is used as a product to judge, this product cannot be error, because when the guide dog is on the road with a blind person on the road At the time, a mistake may lead to the termination of one life and the tragedy of multiple families.

Wang Jingyu and Guide Dog Picture/Interviewee provided

The China Blind Association released a data in May 2019. Data show that there are only less than 200 guide dogs that are using the job in all parts of the country, while the total number of visually impaired people in China exceeds 17 million.

Some people have suggested to Wang Jingyu that they can open the market and put the market price to the market. They can not only make up for high training costs, but also have good profits, but Wang Jingyu refused.

"Although many blind people have visual disorders, they hope to obtain a decent and dignified life through their own labor, but a large part of the blind friends, their lives are tight, and even difficulties. In short supply, but for ordinary blind friends, they will be disappointed and even desperate. "Wang Jingyu said.

The use of guide dogs need to be grinded repeatedly

Wang Hui, a guide dog who lives in Tianjin, is a disabled person with visually disabled. Three years later, Wang Hui went to the base. Through 40 days of training, he obtained his guide dog for free. It was a 3 -year -old female Labrador dog named "娉娉".

Guide dog provided in the training/respondent in the training

Wang Hui recalled the training days to China News Weekly: "There are a lot of training that need to be done during that period. In addition to the basic passwords, it also includes how to pass the road, how to pass the rotation door, how to get the stairs, and how to get the escalator ... These are all these ... These are all these ... These are all these ... It is a link that needs training. In addition to training at the base, we will also go out to the real life scene to train. "

The reason for training is about 40 days because the trainer and the final visually impaired users are different in height, weight, speaking sounds, etc. Therefore, users need to train with dogs. This is a process of running -in.

"For example, in the same tree, the trainer is shorter, and I am tall. The guide dog will ignore my height when training at first, and my head will hit the tree salamander. I need to stop, touch my head, and then point out the tree's crickets that hit the head, telling it that I hit it. "Repeated such training is to make the guide dog know more about my height. Similar to this, there are the width of the door frame, the size of the stride, and so on.

For different bodies and needs of users, the base will directly match the guide dogs with the user, not free choice. Due to the domestication characteristics of guide dogs, most of them choose to train about 1.5-2 years old puppies. Prior to this, these puppies will be raised by volunteer foster families. According to the usual situation, the annual service of the guide dog work is about 6- After 8 years, after service reaching the period, due to the decline in their physical functions, they will no longer be suitable for guidance.

When the guide dog is over service, the base will give priority to asking whether the young foster family is willing to continue to raise the dog. If the foster family gives up the right to feed, the guide dog after service will stay in the service of the service of the service until the termination of the life of life until the termination of the life of life until the termination of its life will not be terminated until the termination of his life will be terminated until the termination of his life will be terminated until the termination of his live Essence And blind people who have a guide dog can also enjoy the qualifications of the guide dog priority.

"Although I did n’t have a long time to come, my family quickly accepted it. It was very good to get along with my lover and children. We must hope that it can still stay in my house after ending service, but I will respect it The requirements of the base. "

Wang Huihe guide dog "行" travel map/respondent provided

Regarding the guidance dog Dordor's abduction by strangers, Wang Hui said: "During the training, the base had clear requirements. Guide dogs must wear guidance saddle. Users stand on their right. There are passwords and commands, including but not limited to instructions such as walking, stopping, sitting, eating, etc. According to the training requirements of the base, guide dogs must not eat any food without the owner. "Wang Hui said.

"But in daily use, users may sometimes be not so strict. Because dogs are more lovely animals and are easy to communicate with humans, especially when they are not working daily, they sometimes relax their requirements for it. . The family likes it very much, and they are willing to come and touch it to play with it. It is difficult to avoid it. "

Can guide horses replace guide dogs?

Wang Jingyu said that the creatures that can do guide work need to meet many requirements at the same time, such as focusing on docile, intelligent intelligence and strong learning ability, and the gap between body strips and human beings.

Therefore, at present, in addition to the guide dogs worldwide, only low -breeding horses can undertake guide work through training, and there are guide horses with certificates in the United States and Britain.

Compared with the guide dog, the biggest advantage of the guide horse is life span. The time for a guide horse to serve is three times that of the guide dog, but for the current China, it is? realistic.

Guide dog provided in the training/respondent in the training

"In daily feeding, the environment and space needed for guide horses are greater, the training cost is higher, and it is difficult to find veterinarians after illness. From the current point of view, there is no plan to guide horses in my country. "Wang Jingyu said.

In addition, the current development of wearable technology auxiliary products needs to be further improved.

"If you want to assist the blind people to travel, it is not just telling you what is so simple in front." Wang Hui continued to give an example. Under the same obstacle, guide dogs can plan a safe route and lead the blind people. To achieve obstacle avoidance, some sudden situations can quickly respond and pass information to the owner by conducting guide saddle, and replaced with wearable electronic products will be much more troublesome.

"There is an obstacle in front. You turn 35 degrees to the left, take three steps, and then turn 15 degrees to the right. Two steps ... This will greatly extend the time for the difficult travel. The guide dog With a word, I left with me. The efficiency gap between the two cannot be made up. "Wang Hui said.

In Wang Hui's view, any kind of auxiliary tools in a single form cannot solve all the problems of the blind people. "I like animal guide dogs, but I also dream of developing an electronic guide dog that can help the blind people. . Only the day when the auxiliary tools are diversified and realized to cooperate with each other, can we allow more blind people with different needs to get out of the house. "

"Many people ask me, how can the guide dogs spend so much money training, how do you say that you have been abducted? In fact, the purpose of our training guide dog is only two dimensions -'bar obstacles' and' companion"They did not have the function of looking at home nursing homes, let alone what people said on the Internet to face the possibility of rushing to bite in the face of the owner. "Wang Jingyu said that it is easy to turn a guide dog.But when people know it is worth 200,000 yuan, it may have a certain deterrent force on some criminals.

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Edit: Hu Yun

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