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By Josh Grossberg on January 7, 2009 10:00 AM | | Comments (0) |
No joke. The New York Times ran a story last week on the popularity of seeing eye horses.

It turns out there are also guide monkeys, goats and ferrets....first it was guide dogs
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 for the blind; now it's monkeys for quadriplegia and agoraphobia, guide miniature horses, a goat for muscular dystrophy, a parrot for psychosis and any number of animals for anxiety, including cats, ferrets, pigs, at least one iguana and a duck. They're all showing up in stores and in restaurants, which is perfectly legal because the Americans With Disabilities Act (A.D.A.) requires that service animals be allowed wherever their owners want to go.

Trouble is brewing because not everybody likes seeing monkeys in the market. It's a good read. Go check it out.

I've written a lot about guide dogs and was fortunate enough to spend a day at the Guide Dogs for the Blind facility in Northern California.

I wrote several stories about a Manhattan Beach woman named Pat Whitehead, who had raised something like 18 dogs for blind people. I followed one particular dog she raised named Tola.

Last I heard, Tola was living up in Canada as a companion to a blind lady.

I'll post the stories soon.

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Daily Breeze reporter Donna Littlejohn has shared her homes with a succession of wonderful, funny, and occasionally difficult canines -- Muffin, Fritz, Ellie, Mercy, Pilgrim and now Cowboy, an Australian shepherd-border collie, and Tess, a border collie. From strong-willed terriers to weirdly obsessed Australian shepherds, they've invaded her world with boundless energy, wet noses, muddy paws and soggy tennis balls. But they've really brought so much more than that -- like laughter and joy, some unexpected life lessons, and more than a few tears along the way.

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