Jeff Loy: The Modern History of Service Animals
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Jeff Loy: The Modern History of Service Animals
- 1. Jeff Loy: The Modern History of Service Animals
- 2. Based out of New Jersey, Jeff Loy is an ethological scientist doing pioneer research in the common behavioral bonds that tie all animals together. At The Center for Animal Behavioral Research, which he founded in 1975, his unique and proprietary knowledge is applied to save animals that no one else has been able to rehabilitate.
- 3. Loy served as an instructor at The Seeing Eye, Inc., an organization that teaches dogs how to lead individuals with vision impairment. He was The Seeing Eye's only scientific researcher, at which time he routinely took death-row dogs from shelters and, not only rehabilitated them to perfection, but also trained them to flawlessly lead his blind students at The Seeing Eye.
- 4. The first professional guide-dog program was established following World War I. Although persons with blindness had used dogs for assistance for decades prior, the first “official” school opened in Potsdam, Germany, but shut down shortly thereafter. Despite the program's failure, it attracted the attention of Dorothy Harrison Eustis, an America living in Switzerland who, at her kennel named Fortunate Fields, bred and trained German Shepherd work dogs.
- 5. Morris Frank, a visually impaired person from Tennessee, learned about the Potsdam school from a 1927 article in the Saturday Evening Post authored by Eustis. He wrote her about the program and asked her to train a dog for himself. She agreed, and a female German Shepherd named Buddy became America's first Seeing-Eye dog. In 1929, Frank, bolstered by $10,000 from Eustis, founded The Seeing Eye, the country's initial dog guide school, in Nashville. All of Morris Frank's subsequent dogs, in honor of his first dog, were named Buddy.
- 6. Morris Frank, a visually impaired person from Tennessee, learned about the Potsdam school from a 1927 article in the Saturday Evening Post authored by Eustis. He wrote her about the program and asked her to train a dog for himself. She agreed, and a female German Shepherd named Buddy became America's first Seeing-Eye dog. In 1929, Frank, bolstered by $10,000 from Eustis, founded The Seeing Eye, the country's initial dog guide school, in Nashville. All of Morris Frank's subsequent dogs, in honor of his first dog, were named Buddy.