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  • Then there's my guide-dog (who now lives outside as there's no room for an indoor bed or for both his smaller dog and mine to be inside) I can sweep outside and in half a dozen times per day, literally, and the hair just keeps on coming back - any dog owner who lives in a confined space knows it just hangs in the air, as it were.

    Making Your Home A Place You Like to Be In 2006

  • In guide-dog training lingo, intelligent disobedience is the dog's response when it senses that the path ahead is dangerous.

    From Incite comes Insight...: Recent Thoughts on BPM James McGovern 2005

  • In this place he was received with even warmer welcome; and when the feast was over, the people brought him to the bridge which led out of the village, and gave him a guide-dog to help him on his way.

    Old-Fashioned Fairy Tales Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing 1863

  • Chelsea Clinton, above with husband Marc Mezvinsky, met in Miami with guide-dog organizer Irwin Stovroff.

    NYDN Rss Gatecrasher 2012

  • Chelsea Clinton, above with husband Marc Mezvinsky, met in Miami with guide-dog organizer Irwin Stovroff.

    NYDN Rss Gatecrasher 2012

  • In addition to quiet cars, other environmental elements and distractions that have necessitated changes in guide-dog training include six-lane streets, traffic islands, roundabouts, cars turning right on red, wheelchair-accessible curbs, button-activated walk signals and even baby strollers using handicapped ramps and curb cuts, Watkins said.

    StarTribune.com rss feed 2011

  • In addition to quiet cars, other environmental elements and distractions that have necessitated changes in guide-dog training include six-lane streets, traffic islands, roundabouts, cars turning right on red, wheelchair-accessible curbs, button-activated walk signals and even baby strollers using handicapped ramps and curb cuts, Watkins said.

    SFGate: Top News Stories By SUE MANNING 2011

  • Both Mike Tiley and Carole Sharpe wore the verger's ornate ceremonial robes, as did, I noticed, Carole's guide-dog Fran, though hers was more of a cape.

    The Guardian World News Crista Cloutier 2010

  • D.C. C.uncil to consider expanding guide-dog laws ...

    DCist 2010

  • YORKTOWN - Guiding Eyes For the Blind, an internationally accredited, nonprofit guide-dog school, has been selected for the 2008 Best of Yorktown Heights Award in the social services category by the U.S. Local Business Association.

    unknown title 2009

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