Cricket is a 26-inch tall, miniature horse, in training for the big responsibility. Next month, she'll leave for eight months of training at a North Carolina seeing-eye horse foundation. King heard about the foundation from an aunt down on a farm in Texas. I thought she had been hittin' the cooking sherry. Once Cricket is trained, King believes she will be the first person in the country to have a seeing-eye horse.
Experts say horses have better eyesight, and are just as trainable.
And to Cheryle King, they're a vision of a new world of freedom.