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In 1931, the first four British guide dogs completed their training and three years later The Guide Dogs for the Blind Association was founded in the UK. Since then, guide dog schools have opened all round the world, and more open their doors every decade.
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The Guide Dogs story started in 1931 with two amazing British pioneers, Muriel Crooke and Rosamund Bond. These remarkable women organised the training of the first four British guide dogs from a humble lock up garage in Wallasey, Merseyside. We’ve come a very long way since those early days.
The foundation that Mr. Frank started was dubbed “The Seeing Eye” and the so-called Seeing Eye dog was effectively born. Today, guide dogs are trained to assist people with many different disabilities. There are Hearing Ear dogs to assist the deaf and other dogs that assist the physically disabled.
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.
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The story begins during World War I when thousands of soldiers lost their sight (usually because of poison gas). One day, a German doctor named Gerhard Stalling was walking the grounds of a veterans' hospital with a patient who had lost his vision. Called away suddenly, Stalling left his German Shepherd with the man to keep him company. When he cam...
Morris Frank, a young blind man living in Nashville, Tennessee heard the article and wrote to Ms. Eustis asking her to train a dog for him. Morris Frank had lost the use of his eyes in two separate accidents and did not like depending on others. He asked Ms. Eustis to train a dog for him and, in return, he would teach others who were blind so that ...
Guide dogs are working all over the world. Today, there are 10,000 dog and handler teams in North America alone. These guide dogs are helping people who have many different disabilities, acting as hearing dogs for people who are deaf or hard of hearing, retrieving items, operating light switches, and opening doors for people with mobility issues. A...
Elliott S. Humphrey was an animal breeder who trained the first guide dogs for the blind used in the United States. Humphrey was hired to breed German shepherds at a centre in Switzerland that had been set up by Dorothy Harrison Eustis of Philadelphia and began the work that led to the Seeing-Eye Dog program.
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Jun 17, 2013 · By 1931 the first four British guide dogs had completed their training and the famous Guide Dogs for the Blind Association had been founded. Today thousands of guide dogs are trained each year all across the globe, providing independence and a vastly improved quality of life for the visually impaired.
