A Labrador guide dog has hit a heartwarming milestone in time for Mother's Day: becoming a great-grandmother. Connie, who retired from the Guide Dogs' breeding programme in 2017 following her fourth ...

Guide dogs help thousands of people with visual disabilities navigate daily life. While guide dogs provide tremendous benefits, the current training program faces serious inefficiencies, since a large ...

Researchers found that DNA testing can slightly improve predictions about which puppies may become successful guide dogs.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dogs who perform service work undergo extensive training. Because of their intelligence and desire to please, Labrador Retrievers ...

Floppy ears, big eyes, tender paws and earnest faces—puppies evoke an instant cuddle response in humans. But they can also change lives. That's the case for Katie McCoy, 33. Born with a genetic eye ...

When Patrick Glines trains a guide dog, he asks himself, “Is this dog good enough for Jay?” Jay is a good friend of Glines from high school who got a guide dog after losing his vision due to diabetes.

The Seeing Eye, a nonprofit based in New Jersey, relies on volunteers to raise puppies to become future guide dogs for people who are blind. A visit to a New Jersey fair decades ago proved ...