Working With Guide Dogs

On Wednesday 2 December I gave a talk about my experience of working with guide dogs. Below are extracts from that presentation.

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I remember being struck on reading Charles Dickens, “A Christmas Carol” by the reference to guide dogs. Speaking of Scrooge Dickens writes,
“Even the blind men’s dogs appeared to know him; and when they saw him coming on, would tug their owners into doorways and up courts; and then
would wag their tails as though they said, “No eye at all is better than an evil...