Seven Guide Dogs are attacked each month

Over the past 14 months attacks on Guide Dogs have doubled

http://www.guidedogs.org.uk/supportu...s/dog-attacks/

That's horrible. I remember reading an article about a Guide dog that had won an award after it still guided its person back home after it had been badly attacked.

Kerryowner I saw the same article and questioned why on earth the dog, that was so badly attacked it required surgery, was asked to work it's way home.

Maybe they didnt realise how badly injured it was?

I guess there was no-one else around to help the blind person so they had no choice? Though most people (except me!) have mobile phones to ring for help you would have thought?

I woould have thought shock and not be able to see would have been some reasons the dog was asked to guide the owner home.

The really bad part is that no one was available to help that person and their dog.

The dog needed surgery and had just been attacked. A quick feel of the dog would have established it was in a bad way. In my opinion it should not have continued to work in harness. I have serious issues about guide dogs being asked to work when they are in no fit state to do so.

As for attacks on guide dogs, it is truly awful an I know of
Pups that were withdrawn from training after suffering an attack. The trouble is they have no way of protecting themselves as they are in a very secure harness, I think they also must give off strange signals because of the harness and their concentration. They cannot give off the calming signals an offlead dog or a dog
just on a collar and lead, or even a pet harness could.