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Loving guide dog owners and trainers gather together at the Sheffield student union, Sheffield for guide dog awareness.

This is a annual event at the union that brings people together to share their personal stories and the dogs journey.

This is one of the largest and most popular events that the Sheffield union organise which they do to raising money to fund guide dogs.

One dog costs £55’000 to train from when they are born to retirementimg_0341.jpg and that one dog can change a persons life drastically.

The event happened over the day with people visiting from the university itself and local people from sheffield.

Owners talked about the process the dogs have to go thought from birth; been socially trained, technically trained so the dog can deal with day to day problems and interactions and then finally personally trained/bonded with there new blind/deaf owner.