There is no central registration for the Service Dogs or Guide Dogs in the USA.
Based on the number of dogs trained each year and the number of Active Dogs published from each of the schools it's estimated there are between 8,000-20,000 active GUIDE DOGS for the blind in everyday usage. And between 15,000 and 25,000 other Service Dogs in use.
Guide Dogs for the Blind added 343 new dog teams in 2009.
The Seeing Eye Graduated 274 dogs, 74 of which were new dog teams in 2009.
It's estimated that between all the schools in the US, only 1,000 Guide dogs and nearly 2,000 other types of Service Dogs were trained in 2009.
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∙ 2010-05-25 19:28:10There are several dozen schools. A list is here: http://www.gdui.org/schools.html
6-7 years
Depends on where you are, but in some US states, it is illegal to refuse a working, certified Guide Dog
Then you get a new guide dog or retrain the old one. Preferrably retrain the old one because it might face what us human's consider the "death penalty".
75% people have dog in us
Pet dogs are among the most woderful things on earth, and we can get many kinds of guidance from them, but angels don't have a thing to do with it.
96% young sir
More than 50 millions.
13% of Americans use Twitter.
right now 110 million
too many? not enough. for my dog. who died. of furball.
Over 36000 Dog breeds