Abstract: Objective To explore the effect of the factors of puppy raisers on training success rates in guide dogs. Method By sorting out and analyzing the investigation materials of 69 puppy raisers from Chinese Guide Dogs Training Centre of Dalian, the evaluation forms including the quality of puppy raisers, parenting skills, the social environment, the time puppy raisers spent on interacting with their dogs were filled out according to the actual situation of puppy raisers, and then the puppy raisers were scored based on grading standard. Result According to the analysis of these four evaluation factors, it was found that the training success rates of dogs on 3~5 score raiser group is significantly higher than that of 1~2 score raiser group, respectively, 26/52 (50.0%) vs 3/17 (17.6%), P=0.019; 26/50 (52.0%) vs 3/19 (15.8%), P=0.006; 27/53 (50.9% ) vs 2/16 (12.5%), P=0.006; 28/58 (48.3%) vs 1/11 (9.1%), P=0.016. The correlation analysis of four factors above showed that except that there is no significant correlation between the quality of puppy raisers and the social environment (P>0.086, r=0.208), and it showed positive correlations in statistics between each other three factors (P<0.05), but the correlation coefficients were low (r<0.5). Conclusion The quality of puppy raisers, parenting skills, social environment, and the time puppy raisers spent on interacting with their dogs has a significant impact on the training success rate of guide dogs.

Key words: Guide dogs, Puppy raisers, Training success rate