In Canada, they have created an exclusive theatrical function for guide dogs

The images of those 20 guide dogs sitting in the seats of a theater go around the world. In the photos we see them still very much watching the work "Billy Eliot" at the Stratford Festival in Canada.

The tender call scene was intended to train the animals so that can accompany their owners When they want to go see a play.

"This gives us the opportunity to expose the dogs to different stimuli such as lights, loud noises and different movements.This allows us to keep the dogs relaxed in tight spaces for a long time." he explained on the radio. CBC Laura Mackenzie, owner of K-9 Country Inn, a service dog, where she breeds dogs.

Festival spokesperson Ann Swerdfager said that "all the dogs behaved marvelously well".

"I was in the lobby when they came in, then they sat down, got up in the middle and came back, all we learn as human when we started going to the theater" , he pointed out, referring to The animals were taken peeing on the sidewalk.

Swerdfager also said that having animals among the audience was also good for the artists, especially a show like Billy Elliot that involved child actors because they were used to having Service dogs in the public.

"It's wonderful that going to the theater is considered one of the things you want to train a service dog, instead of thinking that the theater is out of reach for people who need an animal. of badistance, because it is not the case "concluded the woman.