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In 1916 the German Red Cross Ambulance Dogs Association, whose president was Dr Gerhard Stalling, started training some of the Association’s ambulance dogs as guides for the blind. The first to be handed over to a soldier blinded in action named Paul Freyen, in October 1916.
Aug 29, 2024 · This man is Morris Frank, the co-founder and first Vice President of The Seeing Eye. By his side is Buddy, a German Shepherd, recognizable by his assistance animal harness. Buddy was the first guide dog for the blind in the United States.
Jun 6, 2017 · Their success inspired Frank and Dorothy Eustis, the American woman who ran the Swiss program, to launch the Seeing Eye, the first guide-dog training school in the United States, in 1929.
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. By that stage there were complaints that the quality of the dogs had fallen.
On February 9, 1928, Eustis called Frank and asked him if he would come to her dog-training school in Switzerland, called Fortunate Fields, to be paired with a guide dog. Frank replied, "Mrs. Eustis, to get my independence back, I'd go to hell."
Jan 11, 2017 · In 1929, at age 21, Morris co-founded, with Dorothy Eustis, the first guide-dog school in the United States. It was called “The Seeing Eye,” from Proverbs 20:12: “The hearing ear and the seeing eye – the Lord hath made them both.”
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A Nashville man named Morris Frank had heard the story and decided to write to Ms. Eustis and ask her to train a dog for him. She did and Mr. Frank became known as the first blind person to use a guide dog. As part of an arrangement he’d made with Ms. Eustis, Mr. Frank started training guide dogs in the United States.
