Photos: Shawn McAvinueBevan Gardiner reacts after his guide dog Faith licks his face. Music teacher and musician Bevan Gardiner (31), of Pine Hill, said he had personal experience of the confidence a guide dog could build in a blind person. The degenerative congenital eye condition retinitis pigmentosa had made him blind and he got his first guide dog at the age of 15. With a guide dog came the nerve to leave home at any time of the day. His next guide dog was a Labradoodle named Molly, who got jealous when her owner's first child arrived, so was reassigned.

Source: Otago Daily Times March 16, 2019 15:22 UTC