Ep 37: Little In the Middle

This week all about dogs and sight! We have a greyhound who gets corrective lenses, the first seeing eye dogs, and a guardian livestock dog gets an unusual flock to tend.

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Dr. Pip Boydel and the Blind Greyound

https://www.thedodo.com/close-to-home/gremlin-pit-bull-contacts

https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/AmazingAnimals/prescription-glasses-dogs/story?id=205640

https://phys.org/news/2009-07-contact-lenses-animals.html

http://www.archer2000.com/buddyhound/buddynews68.html

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/funny_old_game/1606722.stm

Dorothy Harrison Eustis & Morris Frank (Seeing Eye Dogs)

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/morris-frank-and-buddy-statue

https://thebark.com/content/history-seeing-eye-dogs

https://www.seeingeye.org/about-us/history.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Seeing_Eye

https://www.womenofthehall.org/inductee/dorothy-harrison-eustis/

https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2016/04/post-article-launched-seeing-eye-program/

https://timeline.com/seeing-eye-dogs-history-e4eababa8e07

https://www.nature.com/scitable/forums/genetics-generation/america-s-hidden-history-the-eugenics-movement-123919444

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Harrison_Eustis

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/67393087/dorothy-leib-eustis

https://www.nytimes.com/1946/09/10/archives/mrs-eustis-is-dead-helped-the-blind-founder-of-seeing-eye-inc-group.html

Swampy Marsh and the Penguin Protection Program

ABC.au

ABC.net

The Bark

Map of Middle Island

The Standard

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Your host, Melissa McCue-McGrath is an author, dog trainer, and behavior consultant in Southern Maine. She'll talk about dogs all day if you let her. You've been warned :)