Lindy

This black labrador is trained as an assistance dog by the charity Canine Partners and now lives and works with her human 'partner' who is physically disabled and uses a wheelchair.

I met Lindy at a graduation ceremony for her and other assistance dogs at Canine Partners' HQ.

Their human partners each told their individual story of the way in which their dog has made a life-changing difference to them.

It was, for all of them, rather an emotional time. One lady said she knew that without her canine partner she would be living in a nursing home.

[Dianne]

A lovely story and beautiful image of a dedicated dog.

[sally agnew]

Beautiful soulful eyes. Thank you for sharing their story, the assistance dogs make a huge difference to people's lives :)

[Dione Giorgio]

Love those begging eyes. What a great doggy portrait. Fav.

[Dione Giorgio]

Btw I enjoyed reading your story - dogs, besides being good and very faithful companions are also very clever.

[Bep]

Beautiful image. I love his eyes :-)

[Terri]

Those eyes!

[Debby Davies]

Such a beautiful pic love the eyes

[Hazel]

@sangwann

Yes and I believe they have abilities that we humans do not possess.

[Babs]

Gorgeous eyes and a beautiful story.

[*lynn]

💙 fav

[Nadiya Bilovodenko]

lovely portrait and great story!

[Julie Ryan]

awe what a face!

[Merrelyn]

Love those eyes :)

[Dixie Goode]

Such a beauty. Nice portrait

[Joanne Diochon]

Oh my gosh, such soft beautiful eyes and such a lovely capture by you.

[mittens (Marilyn)]

Look at the sweet puppy dog face. Cute capture.

[tony gig]

Beautiful Face...Fav

[gloria jones]

Awwww, such a great capture of a sweet face :)

[Beryl Lloyd]

Such compassion in those beautiful eyes !

[Margaret Brown]

Lovely portrait, those eyes are so expressive

[Joseph M Snaith]

Lovely Lindy

[Hazel]

@mrforja

Joseph, that was nearly my title! Thanks for the fav!

[wendy frost]

A beautiful doggy portrait and what lovely eyes she has. Very clever of her to graduate to be an assistance dog.

[Pat Knowles]

Labradors have such beautiful soulful eyes, we miss ours!

[Peter]

Lovely capture with wonderful light and superb eyes Hazel:)

[Denise Wood]

Such sad eyes! Lovely capture :)

[Kerri Michaels]

sweet.. fav

[Pam]

Sweet face and beautiful eyes!

[Joyce]

Beautifully captured Fav

[Phil Howcroft]

just way too cute haze. I've been struggling for pics over the last two weeks but had a picture fest yesterday with some cool streeties and strangers :)