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  2. List of guide dog schools - Wikipedia

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    Guide dogs are assistance dogs trained to lead blind and visually impaired people around obstacles. In the United States, the name "seeing eye dog" is only used in reference to a guide dog from The Seeing Eye in Morristown, New Jersey, which has trademarked the term. [1] Guide dog schools are accredited by the International Guide Dog Federation.

  3. Guide dog - Wikipedia

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    A blind woman learns to use her guide dog in a test environment. Guide dogs (colloquially known in the US as seeing-eye dogs [1]) are assistance dogs trained to lead blind or visually impaired people around obstacles. Although dogs can be trained to navigate various obstacles, they are red–green colour blind and incapable of interpreting ...

  4. Weimaraner - Wikipedia

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    The Weimaraner is of medium to large size: dogs stand some 59 to 70 cm at the withers, bitches about 57 to 65 cm; weights are in the range 30–40 kg for dogs, 25–35 kg for bitches. [ 1 ] [ 10 ] The coat may be either short or long; a double coat of intermediate length is sometimes seen. [ 1 ]

  5. Dog health - Wikipedia

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    The health of dogs is a well ... Treatment requires a minimum 60–90-day course of oral antifungal medication or in severe cases intravenous antifungal injections ...

  6. Dog communication - Wikipedia

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    Bark-howl, 2–3 barks followed by a mournful howl – dog is relatively isolated, locked away with no companionship, calling for company or a response from another dog. [1]: 87 Baying – can be heard during tracking to call pack-mates to the quarry. [1]: 88 Dog howling indicates the dog is present or in its territory. [1]: 86

  7. Dog agility - Wikipedia

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    The dog walk is an elevated plank with ascending and descending ramps at each end, the ramps vary between 8 and 12 feet (2.4 and 3.7 m) in length and 36 and 50 inches (91 and 127 cm) in height above the ground. [6] Seesaw. The seesaw, sometimes called the teeter-totter, is a seesaw, that the dogs walks the length of. The seesaw varies between 8 ...

  8. Myopia in animals - Wikipedia

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    Preliminary laboratory investigations using retinoscopy of 240 dogs [4] found myopic problems with varying degrees of refraction errors depending on the breed. In cases involving German Shepherds, Rottweilers and Miniature horses, the refraction errors were indicative of myopia. Nuclear sclerosis of the crystalline lens was noticed in older ...

  9. Dog behavior - Wikipedia

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    A drawing by Konrad Lorenz showing facial expressions of a dog - a communication behavior. X-axis is aggression, y-axis is fear. Dog behavior is the internally coordinated responses of individuals or groups of domestic dogs to internal and external stimuli. [1] It has been shaped by millennia of contact with humans and their lifestyles.