Dog...

Met a couple at the Puzzle Hall Inn last night. They had a guide dog with them - a black labrador - though neither of them semed to be visually impaired. It turned out that they train guide dogs, one at a time. The training might take as much as two years, they said, before a dog was ready to be matched up with a blind person. I knew guide dogs had to be trained, but I never really thought about how it was done. And I had no idea how time-consuming it was. An interesting conversation (and a lovely dog)…