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During this time, groups like the German Red Cross Ambulance Dogs Association were some of the first to start training dogs for blinded veterans. After the war, in 1927, American German Shepherd breeders and Switzerland residents George and Dorothy Eustis visited a service dog training school in Postdam, Germany.
The German Red Cross Ambulance Dogs Association established a training centre in Oldenberg. The first guide dog was issued in 1916 to a blinded veteran, Paul Feyen. Within a year there were 100 guide dogs issued and 539 guide dogs had been issued by 1919. In 1922, the first classes for civilian blind men commenced.
Children. Walter Abbott Wood III and Harrison Wood. Dorothy Leib Harrison Wood Eustis (May 30, 1886 – September 8, 1946) was an American dog breeder and philanthropist, who founded The Seeing Eye, the first dog guide school for the blind in the United States. [1] She was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 2011.
Aug 8, 2011 · Around 1916 he tasked the organization with retraining these dogs and assigning them to blind veterans. Though Stalling’s program shut down within a decade, in 1923 the German Shepherd Dog ...
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Guide Dogs for the Blind was incorporated on May 27, 1942, and Lois and Don began training dogs and instructing students from a rented home in Los Gatos, California (south of San Jose). A German Shepherd named Blondie, who had been rescued from a Pasadena dog shelter, was one of the first dogs trained. Guide Dogs for the Blind’s first class ...
Apr 14, 2016 · In the mid-1920s, Dorothy Harrison Eustis was training German shepherds as police dogs in Switzerland. She heard about an innovative program in Potsdam, Germany, in which German shepherds were being trained as “blind leaders” to help soldiers blinded during World War I regain their mobility, autonomy, and ultimately their self-confidence, and she had to check it out.
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Because she owned a company that was training German Shepherds as working dogs, she decided she might try to train guide dogs for the blind. She did not start this right away, however. In fact she was still considering the possibilities when she penned a story for The Saturday Evening Post about the potential for guide dogs for the blind.
