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The history of Guide Dogs. Fact! The first known example of a special relationship between a dog and a blind person was depicted in a first-century AD mural in the ruins of Roman Herculaneum. The Guide Dogs story started in 1931 with two amazing British pioneers, Muriel Crooke and Rosamund Bond.
In 1819, Johann Wilhelm Klein, founder of the Institute for the Education of the Blind (Blinden-Erziehungs-Institut) in Vienna, mentioned the concept of the guide dog in his book on educating blind people (Lehrbuch zum Unterricht der Blinden) and described his method for training dogs.
Guide Dogs for the Blind's History. It all began with a dream—the dream of creating the first guide dog training school on the West Coast. It was a dream shared by Lois Merrihew and Don Donaldson who volunteered their efforts along with many others.
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.
Guide Dogs for the Blind was established in 1942 in response to the need for service dogs to help wounded servicemen that were coming back blind from World War II. The first building it operated in was a rented house in Los Gatos, California.
The first known attempt to train guide dogs happened at a hospital for the blind in Paris in 1780. And in 1788, a blind sieve-maker in Vienna was said to have trained a dog so effectively for his own use that people thought he was sighted.
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Guide Dogs, historically focused on training and pairing guide dogs with adults experiencing visual impairment, expanded their services in the early 2010s to include support for children and young individuals with blindness or partial sight.
