How Do Guide Dogs Know Where To Go?

[@charliewhittaker6429]

"Double shout out if you're both" had me creasing

[@alfredalfred8631]

You should get Chris McCausland on the pod. Would interesting to hear about his first gigs and life as a blind comic.

[@bibbly1234]

My parents used to train guide dogs, they have some amazing stories. One time my mum was walking a guide dog through the aisles of a supermarket, whilst wearing sunglasses, so you could easily mistake her for a blind person. She stopped next to some salted butter, paused and then walked with the dog to the unsalted butter, only to hear a woman shout "oh my God, Gerald, how good is that dog, he even knows which type of butter to get"

[@trapbandicoot7877]

Lol

[@maka3130]

So the dog read her mind??? This clears up nothing for me, my stoned brain needs an answer to this. 😂😂😂

[@laurenanderson7330]

@@maka3130she wasn’t blind - she was picking her own butter lol

[@DJ_illusions]

Well that had me in tears but it has definetly given me something to think about

[@oscarcrofts9871]

My mums blind and has a guide dog, basically there are different types of dog suited for different people, older ladies who are slower and only go a few roots will get slower dogs that are trained for a few roots eg shops post office butchers and then the person will use a command eg ( find the butchers ) or just start walking in the general direction. And then more active blind people will get a quicker more adaptive dog that knows how to guide through new environments and is allot quicker. For example my mums dog is a quick adaptive German Shepard he’s good with busses trains escalators and all sorts and can adapt well in places like city’s

[@movieclipsvideos1781]

This was something that needed clipping! Fucking hilarious part of the podcast also algorithm boosting comment

[@wilks1878]

The Tourettes things, I heard one person who had it say, sometimes if you see a black person, or an Asian person, or anything where you say "I really hope I don't say a racial slur here" you can almost trigger it to happen just by thinking "I hope I don't say x word"

[@jordank1489]

I actually have an answer for the racist tourettes question: No, it's not a crime, as the individual is classed as not having their full consciousness at the time the incident takes place. I know this because I work in motor insurance and if you have a tick, or even sneeze, and it leads to an accident, you're not liable for the claim and it's instead classed as an "act of God"

[@Livautowerx]

I’m pretty sure you just tell the dog the post code

[@tracygill1824]

Hiya lads not lids

[@johngreece5534]

How woulc the deaf person hear that he is supposed to shout out

[@Dizzle-bj3hq]

I wanna know why blind people wear sunglasses 😂😂

[@laurenanderson7330]

Because blindness is a spectrum