TIL guide dogs for the blind are called seeing eye dogs because they originally came from an organization called The Seeing Eye.
Lyra_Lycan @ Lyra_Lycan @lemmy.blahaj.zone Posts 5Comments 368Joined 5 mo. ago

Lyra_Lycan @ Lyra_Lycan @lemmy.blahaj.zone
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Cool! It says the founder was inspired by how someone in Germany trained dogs to guide blinded WW1 veterans! In England they're called guide dogs because the first ones there came from an organization called Guide Dogs. Also they guide.