Seeing Eye Guide Dog Birthday
Seeing Eye Guide Dog Birthday is held on January 29. 1929. This event in the third decade of the month January is annual. 
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They are not such a recent invention. Literature, artwork, engravings and woodcuts have led historians to believe that service animals date back at least to the mid-16th century. However, the first systematic attempt to train dogs to aid blind people came around 1780 at ‘Les Quinze-Vingts’ hospital for the blind in Paris. Despite that, it was only really in the early-mid 1900’s that guide dog training institutions became more prevalent, enabling far greater accessibility.
Systematic training of guide dogs originated in Germany during World War I to aid blinded veterans. Seeing Eye dog, a moniker often used synonymously with guide dog, refers to a guide dog trained by The Seeing Eye, Inc., of Morristown, New Jersey, which was founded in 1929.
The average working life for a Seeing Eye dog is 7 - 8 years. Many Seeing Eye dogs have lived and worked to the ages of 10 or 11.
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