
Rana Arnold, of State College, director of the Centre County 4-H Seeing Eye Puppy Raisers, watches over the group's meeting in the Ag Arena on Penn State's University Park campus Monday, Jan. 26, 2009, as her guide dog in training sits at her feet. Arnold, who is blind, works with families who raise puppies until they're 16 months of age, after which the dogs are sent for further training with the Seeing Eye foundation.

Ashley Hartle, 16, of Bellefonte, leads the puppy raisers in an exercise that involves walking in a circle around the upper area of the Ag Arena at Penn State's University Park campus Monday, Jan. 26, 2009. Those in the Centre County 4-H Seeing Eye Puppy Raisers group raise the dogs until they are 16 months of age, after which they are sent back to Seeing Eye for further training.