Seeing Eye Dogs
Guide dogs got their start in America when Dorothy Eustis wrote an article for the Saturday Evening Post describing how the Germans were training dogs to help blind veterans from World War I. The article was entitled "The Seeing Eye". A 16-year old boy in Tennessee then wrote her and asked her to train a dog for him. That, according to The Seeing Eye, is the humble origin of the guide dog in America. But the Seeing Eye Foundation also benefited from the fact that it was founded by a breeder named Geraldine Rockefeller Dodge, daughter of Standard Oil's William Avery Rockefeller. Humble origins or not, The Seeing Eye has been training guide dogs for the blind for nearly 80 years.
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