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Guide Dog Heroes
With a guide dog, you never feel like you are alone. Panzy is a guide dog. She helps her blind owner get from place to place. Readers will learn about the history, training, what being on the job is like for a guide dog, and what happens when the dog retires. Guide dogs truly are heroes.
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Izzy, a blind college student, acquired a guide dog for the first time. Having a dog gave him companion-ship and more freedom to do things on his own. The story line goes on to a short history which tells that the training and use of guide dogs began after World War I in Germany. Dorothy Eustis and Morris Frank founded the Seeing Eye, a school for guide dogs, now in Morristown, New Jersey. German shepherds, Labrador retrievers, and golden retrievers are the most popular breeds trained. Puppies must be raised, receive formal training, and then partner with a compatible person. A working dog wears a harness to lead a person around obstacles. If you want to pat the dog, you should ask the person first. The dog is on duty day and night. A Fast Fact in a box says: According to the Americans with Disabilities Act, guide dogs have the right to go anywhere the public is allowed. Guide dogs work eight to ten years and retire to loving homes. A guide dog named Roselle helped Michael Hingson escape the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. Such guide dogs are heroes. Stunning photographs show dogs and their handlers. This is one of the Amazing Working Dogs with American Humane series. There is a glossary, index, lists of books for further reading, and Internet addresses. Kids will enjoy reporting on these dogs., Children's Literature
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