International Guide Dog Day on Wednesday 26th April , celebrates the incredibly important role Guide Dogs play in the community and acknowledges the amazing difference they make to the lives of people who are blind or vision impaired. HISTORY References to service animals in literature date at least as far back as the mid-16th century. In a 19th-century novel by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, the title character remarks, "The blind man walks wherever the dog pulls ... And so I answered." Dogs were first used to guide people who were blind in 1819 when Johann Whilhelm Klein founded an institute for the blind in Vienna, Austria. His ideas were later put into practice in 1916, when Dr Gerhard Stalling established a school to train dogs to assist German soldiers who had been blinded in the First World War. But interest in service animals outside of Germany did not become widespread until Dorothy Eustis , an American dog breeder living in Switzerland, wrote a first-hand accoun...
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