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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.
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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.
Lois was the first woman to become a licensed dog guide instructor, and eventually even became Guide Dogs for the Blind's director of training. It all began with a dream—the dream of creating the first guide dog training school on the West Coast.
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.
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.
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 .
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Oct 7, 2024 · In 1928, a German Shepherd named Buddy became the first guide dog in the United States, revolutionizing independent travel for visually impaired individuals. Guide dogs for the blind have since become an invaluable part of society, providing assistance, companionship, and mobility to those in need.
