A guide dog is a specially trained animal that helps blind or visually impaired people navigate in space.
What are the benefits of guide dogs
Thanks to guides, people with vision problems can live a normal life.
Without dogs, they most often sit at home, don’t go out anywhere, are dependent on loved ones, but with a dog their lives change.
With the help of other commands, the guide, at the request of the owner, will be able to find the entrance or exit from the room, take the owner to a chair, bench or bus stop and find the entrance to the subway if it is within line of sight.
A guide dog is especially indispensable in noisy places where it is difficult for a blind person to navigate by ear.
What breeds are guide dogs
Breeds Mostly Labrador Retrievers, Golden Retrievers, and German Shepherds are used as guide dogs, but dogs of other breeds can also be trained for this purpose.
Excessive maternal care reduces the chances of puppies becoming successful guide dogs.
This conclusion was reached by a team of American scientists who studied how maternal care during the first weeks after the birth of a puppy affects its cognitive abilities and temperament in adulthood.
How to recognize a guide dog
A guide dog is easy to distinguish from a regular service dog.
It always wears special equipment.
When this equipment is put on, the dog enters “working mode”, and when taken off, it behaves like an ordinary dog: it runs, plays with a ball, frolics and rolls on the grass.
