{"id":8286,"date":"2014-03-24T15:57:55","date_gmt":"2014-03-24T15:57:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=8286"},"modified":"2014-03-24T15:57:55","modified_gmt":"2014-03-24T15:57:55","slug":"blind-couple-fall-in-love-after-their-guide-dogs-became-an-item","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=8286","title":{"rendered":"Blind couple fall in love after their guide dogs became an item"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"834b5092d6dcd2e4f9ce8d860e09b429_L\"<\/a>A besotted blind couple who married on Sunday have told how they fell in love – when their guide dogs also became an item.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Claire Johnson, 50, first fell for Mark Gaffey, 51, from Stoke-on-Trent, Staffs, when her pet Venice got friendly with his pooch Rodd at Guide Dog Training classes in 2012.<\/p>\n

The two dogs became inseparable and soon their owners, who are both registered blind, soon realised they were head over heels for each other too.<\/p>\n

Just a year after meeting, Mark popped the question on Valentine’s Day last year. And the happy couple married yesterday at Barlaston’s Upper House hotel in Stoke-on-Trent – with their dogs as ring-bearers.<\/p>\n

Claire, who lost her sight due to diabetes when she was 24, beamed: ‘I have no doubt that our guide dogs brought us together and helped me find my true love.<\/p>\n

‘Much like our two guide dogs, we really are best friends and soul mates.<\/p>\n

‘Our dogs were the class love story.<\/p>\n

‘Everyone used to joke about how Mark’s dog Rodd and my dog Venice were meant to be together.’<\/p>\n

The pair, met when they both took their dogs to Venice to Guide Dog Training course in Shrewsbury, Shrops., in March http:\/\/buytramadolbest.com<\/a> last year.<\/p>\n

Mark, who was blind from birth said: ‘During the training our two dogs, Rodd and Venice, seemed to know something we didn’t.<\/p>\n

‘They were always playing together and nuzzling up together.<\/p>\n

‘The trainers said that they were the love and romance of the course, and they brought us together.<\/p>\n

‘We could have easily missed one another by a week because it was a residential course and we just happened to be put on the same one.<\/p>\n

‘It’s ironic because we discovered that we only lived a mile-and-a-half away from each other but had never met.<\/p>\n

‘But we were purely in the right place at the right time.<\/p>\n

‘I have never believed in fate, but it does seem like it was meant to be.<\/p>\n

‘Each time we met the lunches were getting longer and the waitresses were tapping their fingers waiting for us to leave.’<\/p>\n

‘There was a connection from the word go. We chatted about anything and everything.<\/p>\n

‘I trusted in the luck I didn’t seem to know existed.<\/p>\n

‘Now we joke that with every guide dog you get a free wife. I love Claire’s personality and her laugh is infectious.<\/p>\n

‘We’ve never had an argument, we just seem to click.’<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Source: Daily Mail<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A besotted blind couple who married on Sunday have told how they fell in love – when their guide dogs also became an item. Claire Johnson, 50, first fell for Mark Gaffey, 51, from Stoke-on-Trent, Staffs, when her pet Venice got friendly with his pooch Rodd at Guide Dog Training classes in 2012. The two […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":8289,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[7],"class_list":["post-8286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-togbe-afede-xiv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}