Working Dogs

Dogs who serve people in their everyday lives are called assistance dogs. Over just the past 75 years, people have trained dogs to perform numerous tasks to help people who are blind, deaf, or mobility-impaired. Guide dogs for the blind and service dogs for the mobility-impaired are usually golden retrievers, Labs, or German shepherds because of their strength, size, and receptiveness to training. Hearing dogs serving the deaf can be any kind of dog when given special training, even a tiny Yorkshire terrier.