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Sheila Hocken is a writer and canine specialist. She is best known for her book Emma & I (1978), an autobiography that details her growing up as a blind child, [1] her relationship with her chocolate Labrador retriever guide dog, [2] Emma, and the regaining of her sight as a young woman through surgery.
Guide dogs are well known for their mobility assistance, but their impact on his mental wellbeing is just as profound. The Independent’s Reuben Hodson reports.
Dorothy Leib Harrison Wood Eustis (May 30, 1886 – September 8, 1946) was an American dog breeder and philanthropist, who founded The Seeing Eye, the first dog guide school for the blind in the United States. [1] She was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 2011. [2]
Both the book and the film can be taken at face value (as a relatively tame account of having a large, doleful animal foisted upon you), but they can also be read as explorations of mortality ...
Quill (クイール, Kuīru) is a 2004 Japanese drama film about a guide dog, first released in Japan on 13 March 2004 and on DVD on 25 September 2004. It was also shown at the 2004 Toronto International Film Festival in Canada on 17 September 2004.
Horowitz’ debut book, Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know, was a #1 New York Times Bestseller in 2009, and it remained on the list for 64 weeks. [17] In 2014, she received a William James Book Award of recognition for On Looking: Eleven Walks with Expert Eyes . [ 18 ]
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The author explains the animal's cognitive abilities, and allows the reader insight into what it might be like to be a dog. The book also contains a brief interview with the author. Horowitz' approach is based on biosemiotic theory of Jakob von Uexküll on umwelten or the subjective worlds of animals. She writes about revolutionary impact of ...