Madrid (EFE).- The Provincial Court of Seville has had a new and unusual member of its body of magistrates of the Third Section for a few days. His name is Pusky, he is the guide dog of magistrate Luis Gonzaga de Oro-Pulido, the first in Spain, and he attracts all eyes in the Seville courthouse.
His new colleagues “have given him a blanket, a bed, toys…”, the magistrate told the media this Friday in the hearing room of the First Section of the Provincial Court of Seville.
Pusky was born in Boadilla del Monte (Madrid), at the headquarters of the ONCE Guide Dog Foundation, where dogs are trained to guide blind people in their daily lives.
After staying for a few months with a foster family, where he learned “the sound of a vacuum cleaner or a washing machine” or “to behave in a restaurant”, he returned to the center, where he began his training as a guide dog, a training that he also The magistrate had to submit, who moved to Madrid to get “the dog’s license”, a term coined by his trainer, Nuria García López.
Once this first contact was made, Pusky went to Seville to find out what would be the usual routes from the magistrate’s home to the Provincial Court of Seville, a place where the dog can function without any problem.
The union between Judge Gonzaga and Pusky is not the result of chance. The trainers search the ONCE waiting list for a profile “according to the dog” and its social characteristics.
The magistrate has explained to the journalists that the arrival of Pusky in his life has improved it “from the physical and mental point of view” since before he suffered “stress” when he walked down the street due to fear of tripping over some object or person.
The territorial delegate of ONCE in Andalusia, Miguel Carballeda, for his part, has said that whenever a guide dog is delivered to a user it is a reason for satisfaction and that Pusky is one of the eleven dogs that the foundation has delivered this 2023 in this community.
The organization itself has already adapted the workplace of the magistrate, who is not blind from birth, with a special computer screen and a program that reads the large number of documents that he must consult daily.
Pusky, black, like the magistrate’s gown, has already “presided over” two trials since his arrival at the Court, where he remains “calm” and “behaves wonderfully”, lying at the feet of the person he is talking about. has become his eyes.