THE PANDA PROJECT
GUIDE HORSES FOR THE BLIND

In September of 2001 I began training Panda, a nine month old miniature horse, to be a guide for the blind. In June of 2003 at two and a half years of age, Panda was turned over to her owner, Ann Edie. She is now a working guide.

The mission statement written by Ann Edie, describes our purpose for training a horse to be a guide: the questions we had, and the overall intent of our project.

The Training Reports cover Panda’s training and were written at the time of the events described.

To read more about Panda please read the reports in this series written by Ann Edie.

Panda Project Mission Statement by Ann Edie
Report 1: Basic Training Sept. 2001 by Alexandra Kurland
Report 2: Panda is Guiding! Oct. 2001-Nov. 2001 by Alexandra Kurland
Report 3: Untitled Dec. 2001- Feb. 2002 by Alexandra Kurland
Report 4: Climbing to New Heights: Spring 2003 by Alexandra Kurland
Report 5: The Transition to Guide Work by Alexandra Kurland
Report 6: More Panda Reports by Ann Edie
Report 7: Interim Report by Ann Edie

Report 8: A Panda Update: January 2009

Proposed Changes to A.D.A affecting access rights for miniature horse guides

Panda A Guide For Ann : A Children's book by Rosanna Hansen with Photos by Neil Soderstrom

Panda is featured in “The Click That Teaches” video lesson series. She is in “Lesson 4: Stimulus Control: Putting Behavior on Cue” and “An Introduction to Clicker Training”.