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* You can see a blind person accompanied by a dog in the city street. Read the article below to know more about guide dogs.

More about guide dogs

A guide dog is a unique method of rehabilitation for a visually impaired person. Independence gained with guide dogs helps visually impaired people to find work, friends, hobbies, get an education and resolve day-to-day challenges.

Dogs’ amazing abilities to remember routes that they walked and to find a way home have been noticed and used by people since a long time ago. Now the main task for a guide dog is to remember regular routes and take its visually impaired owner on them preventing him/her from being lost.

Another task is to make such a route safe. Thanks to unique training methods a modern guide dog is very skilled. It is well adapted to work in a busy and noisy urban setting, where it takes its owner through crowded streets, protecting from collisions, warning of obstacles.

During its training a dog is taught to take a person across roads, find stairs, a necessary door or a bench. Sometimes visually impaired people stay at home for years until they get a guide dog.

What is the main purpose of a guide dog for a visually impaired person?

The main purpose of a guide dog for a visually impaired person is to help them gain independence and navigate regular routes safely.

The main purpose of a guide dog for a visually impaired person is to support visually impaired people emotionally.

Guide dogs are trained to perform tricks and entertain their visually impaired owners in crowded streets.

Guide dogs are only trained to assist with finding specific objects or locations, not regular routes.