This school has over 200 graduates. Dogs used are German Shepherds, Labradors, and Golden Retrievers. A small school with personalized training for 6 students per class. Guide Dogs of the Desert trains German Shepherds, Labradors, and Golden Retrievers in San Diego and Palm Springs, California. Since 1942 this school has trained in California, but a second campus has opened in Boring, Oregon recently.
Classes start monthly.
The dorms at Southeastern Guide Dogs provide a feeling of home for its students. This school trains the standard breeds as well as Australian Shepherds, Pointers, and other suitable breeds. While great for Hawaiian residents, Eyes of the Pacific may be impractical for others because of quarantine laws. Not having their own dorms they house students in a near by hotel during training. With 9000 people-dog teams to its credit since 1939, Leader Dogs for the Blind breeds and trains its own dogs, but will accept suitable dogs from the community.