After hearing the command "Forward," a Labrador retriever crosses a city street. Its owner carefully grips the dog's harness. The handler is blind, but with his guide dog leading the way, he can safely cross the busy intersection. In this fascinating introduction to guide dogs, beginning readers will learn all about the hard-working canines that help their owners handle any obstacle. From avoiding dangerous traffic to climbing daunting stairs, guide...

Unlike many working dogs, a guide dog is not praised or rewarded on the job. There should be no distractions when the dog is in work mode. As it teams up with its handler to get from place to place, a guide dog must use its own judgment to decide if a path is safe. In this book, discover the remarkable concentration of a dedicated companion.

Discusses guide dogs, their selection and training, the preferred breeds, and their work with the vision-impaired.

"The text opens with a true story of a guide dog, and then it explains the history of guide dogs and the training methods used to transform an ordinary dog into a canine hero"--Provided by publisher.

This primetime PBS documentary follows the inspiring stories of people with disabilities as they experience the heartwarming and sometimes challenging process of being matched with and receiving a service dog.

Did you know, there are more than 1,000 families raising guide dog puppies throughout the Western states of the USA?? Join Joel on this amazing quest as he learns what it is like to depend on a guide dog.

When Jill Allen-King OBE, suddenly lost her sight at the age of 24, with little help and advice available from Social Services she had to teach herself to cope with a whole new way of living that had its own set of challenges to overcome, including looking after her daughter, Jacqueline, born soon afterwards. It wasn't until seven years later that Jill successfully completed a training course with her first guide dog and finally, after years of being...

The story of how Frank Morris used Buddy, the first seeing eye dog, to live with a degree of independence from other people.

Follows a litter of puppies on their two-year training process to become guide dogs for the blind.