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DirectoryGoldachStiftung Ostschweizerische Blindenführhunde-Schule (OBS)
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Summary

About the company

The company's core activity is the training and promotion of guide dogs for the blind, as well as supporting blind and visually impaired individuals by providing trained guide dogs. This includes selecting and training puppies, training young dogs, dog training and an introductory course for new guide dogs.

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Products & services

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Guide dog training
Training of guide dogs over several months; learning 36 audible cues, guiding and avoiding obstacles, indicating nearby destinations, and an official examination.
Introductory course for guide-dog handlers
Training after the handover of the tested guide dog; bonding work, guidance work in the harness, joint training with an instructor, follow-up support and accompaniment until the dog retires.
Awareness work and demonstrations
Demonstrations, talks and school visits to raise awareness about the correct handling of guide dogs; explaining the guide dog's development and reducing uncertainty.
Seminars for guide-dog handlers
Continuing education seminars for dogs in service and their handlers; checking guiding performance, solving individual guiding problems, contact exercises, specialist presentations and exchange.
Training of guide-dog instructors
Training for guide-dog instructors at AI-recognised schools; includes puppy selection, rearing young dogs, dog training, introducing the teams and follow-up support.
Puppy selection
Selection of suitable puppies for later training as guide dogs; first step in the school's training programme.
Young dog training
Raising and training young dogs as a preparatory phase before guide dog training; part of the OBS training programme.
Donations
Opportunity to financially support the foundation and its guide dog training; online donations and donation amounts in fixed CHF values.
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Stiftung Ostschweizerische Blindenführhunde-Schule (OBS)

Trust & reputation

ranQ Trust Score of Stiftung Ostschweizerische Blindenführhunde-Schule (OBS): 4.3 out of 5.0

Trust Score4.3/ 5.0

Very high

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Data basis 100% · As of October 2026

Stiftung Ostschweizerische Blindenführhunde-Schule (OBS) scores 77.9 out of 100 points in the Reputation area of the ranQ Trust Score. This area carries 42% of the weighting.
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  • Review quality: The average rating across all connected sources, smoothed against the industry mean. So 5.0 stars from three reviews do not outrank 4.7 from three hundred.79.124%
  • Review volume: The number of reviews across all sources. The scale is logarithmic: the first reviews count the most, and the maximum is reached at 50 reviews.67.110%
  • Review recency: The age of the most recent review. Two-year-old reviews deliberately sit in the middle, because that is normal for Swiss SMEs. Only after three years without a new voice does the value drop markedly.88.08%
Stiftung Ostschweizerische Blindenführhunde-Schule (OBS) scores 88.6 out of 100 points in the Substance area of the ranQ Trust Score. This area carries 28% of the weighting.
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  • Establishment: Years since founding or brand launch, logarithmic. The maximum is reached at 15 years.100.012%
  • Company size: The headcount band, researched by ranQ or stated by the company. It is scored in steps rather than by head count, because the data only provides bands.70.07%
Stiftung Ostschweizerische Blindenführhunde-Schule (OBS) scores 85.0 out of 100 points in the Identity area of the ranQ Trust Score. This area carries 22% of the weighting.
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  • Verification: Official register entry (commercial register with UID or professional-body record, 55 points), confirmed domain (20 points) and confirmed ranQ profile (up to 25 points, depending on completeness).85.022%
Stiftung Ostschweizerische Blindenführhunde-Schule (OBS) scores 48.4 out of 100 points in the Visibility area of the ranQ Trust Score. This area carries 8% of the weighting.
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  • Website authority: Ahrefs' Domain Rating measures, on a scale of 0 to 100, how strongly a website is linked from other websites. For Swiss SMEs the range up to 40 is typical; the maximum is reached at 35.80.04%
  • Media authority: Quality and number of editorial mentions, weighted by the importance of the source, plus the recency of the latest high-quality mention.16.74%
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Stiftung Ostschweizerische Blindenführhunde-Schule (OBS) reaches a ranQ Trust Score of 4.3 out of 5.0 — rated «Very high». The rating draws, among other things, on 4.8 out of 5 stars from 13 customer reviews. As of October 2026.

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Reviews

Aggregated rating

Aggregated rating
4.8
of 5

Aggregated from 13 reviews across all connected sources

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Press

Media

March 5, 2021Media
«Befehle bringen wir italienisch bei»
rheintaler.ch
April 30, 2018Media
VIERBEINER: Goldacher Hunde helfen Blinden
tagblatt.ch

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Location

Seestrasse 25
9403 Goldach

At a glance

Legal form
Foundation
UID
CHE-110.402.748
Founded
1997 · 29 years
Last commercial register change
May 26, 2026
Employees
11 to 20
Legal form: Graded by liability and disclosure. The weight is kept small: a sole proprietorship is not a dubious company, it is just liable differently.97.06%
  • Branch offices: Branch offices linked in the commercial register. Having none is normal and costs no points.70.03%
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