Monday, 31 January 2005

Eye Mate Tokyo

On my way home from work tonight (just half an hour ago) on my train was a regular guide dog (pretty much the same as the ones we see in Australia). It was pretty unusual, in fact it was the first one I had seen in Japan. I noticed on the back of it's colar and headgear it said "Eye Mate Tokyo" which I assume is the organisation which trains the dog. What was interesting was that when the man and the do got off the train, his commands were in English, despite hime obviously not being exactly fluent in the language. It was kind of funny (bad I know!) when the man was yelling out "READ! READ!" and the dog didn't understand that he was trying to say "LEAD! LEAD!".

The dog stood there really confused. The fact that half the passengers were transfering to another train on the same platform didn't help matters. He didn't know if his master wanted to leave the station or change trains. I bet the "READ!" commands didn't help either. The man was very, very frustrated.

posted by Brad at 9:49 PM

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