A teacher at my school is raising one! He is a really cool looking lab w/ a liver nose and olive green eyes, but I don't think he will make it to be a guide dog because he is neering the end of his training and he still can't handle crowds like pep rallys and he still pulls on the leash
I really wish they would train rescue dogs for the blind instead of breeding them all and only a few making it. Most dogs for the deaf are rescues or you could send your own dog off for traininng. I like that idea much better. A very close family friend is deaf and she adopted a dog specifically for the training, but she is about to get another one because her poor old hearing dog is now deaf herself!
Also I think the dogs for the disabled are rescues a lot too.