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In a Minute with Evan Lovett

Tails That Lead: Exploring L.A. with Guide Dogs of America

In a Minute with Evan Lovett

Audacy

Society & Culture, Places & Travel

51K Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Guide Dogs of America is an important organization based in Sylmar providing canine companions to the visually impaired, veterans, and children with autism. I sit down with Sean Chiles, Guide Dog Mobility Instructor and Katherine Juhl, Sr. Manager Puppy Programs, to discuss everything that goes into getting these cute pups trained into trusted cohorts. Cuteness warning: tail wags and puppy licks ahead!

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0:00.0

Yo, welcome to another episode of In A Minute with Evan Lovett.

0:13.0

And man, this is something I've been waiting for because I am a dog lover.

0:18.2

And I have always been a dog lover.

0:20.4

Grew up with dogs, around dogs.

0:22.3

We have three awesome amazing dogs now.

0:25.2

Bam's Nora and Zoe.

0:26.5

Give them a shout out.

0:28.1

But these dogs that we have in the studio today are very special guests.

0:34.5

Along with Sean, the handler of the dogs for Guide Dogs of America. I forgot your

0:40.4

proper title. What is the proper title, Sean? My name is Sean, and I'm a Guide Dog Mobility

0:44.5

Instructor. Guide dog mobility instructor. And Catherine, the director of puppy programs,

0:50.3

giving... Very close. Very close. Senior manager of puppy program. Senior manager, but the stars of the show are two members of guide dogs of America

0:59.4

Los Angeles based organization in Silmar by the way we have Riland and we have Mystic right here resting

1:08.5

preparing for for another day of work and of service.

1:12.7

And that's what we're going to get into because guide dogs of America is such an

1:16.6

important organization.

1:18.2

And for any dog lover or frankly, any human lover, it's so important because of the

1:23.6

contribution that these dogs make to society and to help people function,

1:28.3

whether it's visually impaired people, veterans, people with autism, or even we were just talking about different services.

1:36.3

Sheriff Station, fire station, things like that, is sort of therapeutic dogs that can help calm down a situation.

1:43.3

So we're going to get into all that, especially the history of Guy Dogs of America,

1:46.9

because I'm very proud that that is an LA-based organization that's putting all this

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