Where are all the blind people?

[DCI Harry Batt]

Where are all the blind people?

Yeah.

Which is fine, but who deals with the people who are made anxious by the animals' being around?

[WOM]

Where are all the blind people?

Do people get made anxious by service dogs?

[DCI Harry Batt]

Where are all the blind people?

A bit. Not much. I've not happened across dogs in unusual places for anxiety, as yet. I'm used to the odd guide dog in food hall and suchlike yeah.

[WOM]

Where are all the blind people?

Service dogs tend to stick to their knitting. It's the office-worker-Pugs that you need to watch for around your lunch and whatnot.

[DCI Harry Batt]

Where are all the blind people?

Yeah it's anticipatory anxiety I have so far.

[Vulgarian Visigoth]

Where are all the blind people?

Electro Velvet Android wrote:

We increasingly see people with service animals that help them deal with anxiety.

Just picked up on this passing comment of ursus' — is this really a thing, as in some charity training and supplying Reassurance Dogs for the Anxious?

They're the right animal for reassurance. They're always laughing.

[Pietro Paolo Virdis]

Where are all the blind people?

ursus arctos wrote: As far as comparable figures go, one of the US organisations estimates 10,000 guide dogs actively working in the US, though that only represents about 2% of our blind population.

That's 10,000 guide dogs on a population of 300 million.
While we have 300 on population of 9 million

Makes me feel I wasn't so wrong with this guide dog question. As a teen, I saw them at least once a month.