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How are guide dogs trained?

Today, hundreds of young, strong, but blind people have received a new opportunity to walk as they want, work, live, and all this has become possible with the help of guide dogs.

The training of such dogs is a very long and laborious process. They must learn to obey the commands of the owner, except when it is dangerous for the owner. No guide dog will run across the road in front of a speeding car, no matter how the owner commands "go."

Guide dogs are most often German Shepherds, although Boxers and Labradors are sometimes also used for this purpose. The preparation takes three months. First, there are simple exercises - stand up, sit down, lie down, stand, bring something. They are repeated daily.

Then a special harness is put on. The dog learns to walk to the left of the trainer half a step ahead. The teacher behaves like a blind man: he stumbles upon various objects. The dog must lead him past them, stop and wait, and all this is in check. She chooses the path and passes the cars. Even though she obeys her master, she only goes when it's safe to do so.

Before the dog goes to his blind owner, the trainer makes a final check. He blindfolds himself, and the dog has to guide him across the tight track. This is done to ensure the good qualities of the guide dog.

The dog and its owner then train together for 4 weeks. Every day they repeat the simplest commands. All this the dog does only for the praise of the owner. Lively walks follow, the owner drives the team, through which they transmit signals to each other.

Soon they are ready to try to move around the city streets, but first under the supervision of an instructor. The dog skillfully chooses a path in the crowd, bypassing dangerous places, stops after each pull on the leash. Now these two work together as a team. Together they go home to start a new, free life!

Author: Likum A.

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Who said: Let them eat cake?

You probably remember that history lesson in school like it was yesterday. 1789 The French Revolution is in full swing. The Parisian poor riot because the people have no bread, and Queen Marie Antoinette - insensitively indifferent, trying to joke or just out of natural stupidity - finds nothing better than to suggest that they eat cakes instead of bread.

Problem number one is that they weren't cakes, they were brioches (the original French text is Qu'ils mangentde la brioche). According to Alan Davidson and his Oxford Culinary Guide, "Brioche in the XNUMXth century was only a slightly enriched (with a modest amount of butter and eggs) roll, essentially not far removed from good white bread." So the proposal of the queen can be considered an attempt to do a good deed: they say, if the people want bread, give them what is better.

And everything would be fine, only Marie Antoinette did not say anything like that. The phrase has been actively circulating in the press since 1760 - to illustrate the decomposition of the aristocracy. And Jean-Jacques Rousseau generally claimed to have heard it back in 1740.

The last of Marie Antoinette's biographers, Lady Anthony Fraser, attributes this statement to a completely different queen - Marie Theresa, wife of Louis XIV, the "Sun King", although in reality anyone could say it: the eighteenth century did not lack noble ladies . It is also possible that the famous phrase was generally coined for propaganda purposes.

Another story is known, according to which it was Marie Antoinette who introduced France to the croissants allegedly brought from her native Vienna. To us, this myth also seems unlikely, since the first mention of croissants in France refers only to the 1853 year.

Interestingly, around the same time, itinerant Austrian confectioners brought the puff pastry recipe to Denmark. Since then, the famous "Danish buns" are known in this country as wienerbrod ("Viennese bread").

In Vienna, they are called Kopenhagener (that is, "Copenhagen" (German).).

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