Angela Carpenter, age 12, of Jefferson, Tenn., for her question:

CAN YOU TELL ME ABOUT TRAINING SEEING EYE DOGS?

For years dogs had been used to lead the blind, but it wasn't until 1929 that the first training school for dogs was started in the United States based on work that had been carried on in Switzerland. The American organization became Seeing Eye, Inc. in 1949 and is headquartered in Morristown, New Jersey.

Most seeing eye dogs are German shepherds although Labrador retrievers and boxers are also used.

When a pup is 14 months old, he undergoes a tough three month training course before he joins his blind master.