Don't you know any blind person? Once they interact with someone or an animal, they can focus on their breathing, even when going a few feet away, with interferences. It's equivalent to not breaking eye contact with someone even when other people are passing by. The fact that it breathes heavily helps them keep that "connection" through other noises (like people talking, for instance, which seems to have been the case here".
We're operating under two different premises here.
One being that the boy at some was introduced to the dog as "the yellow dog" and interacted with it long enough to recognize it's breathing when walking by it (this also operates under the premise that the dog was in an open area or kennel of some point (not behind a glass window) and that it had stayed in relatively the same spot, and that that area was quiet enough for him to distinguish the dog's breathing from any other animals around him
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The other premise is that the boy walked into the area the dogs were in and instantly pointed at the yellow lab with no preamble
Given the little context the meme provides we can't know for sure, but my takeaway would be that the second scenario would be the more likely one, based on the fact the employee at no point mentions or implies that the boy was introduced to any dogs (they simply say they walked them to the dogs, which would imply the area the dogs are kept to me), and the reaction of the employee in general, who is quite likely familiar with helping the blind or impaired given they work in a guide dog facility.
As allpower points out- this is a challenge many legally blind people face. You can be legally blind and still have some vision. Many bling people can “see” abstract shapes, movement, colors, etc. some have extreme vision issue where they could see an object right in front of their face or very far away with relative clarity, but anything beyond that is a distorted mess that falls far beyond what corrective lenses (or at least feasible ones) are capable of correcting. So “blind” doesn’t mean a person had absolutely no vision- it means they lack the visual capacity to make that sense useful in any meaningful way.
Saw this somewhere before where people ripped into it because of how much in it is just factual wrong like that there aren't guide dog "shelters" and what not
One being that the boy at some was introduced to the dog as "the yellow dog" and interacted with it long enough to recognize it's breathing when walking by it (this also operates under the premise that the dog was in an open area or kennel of some point (not behind a glass window) and that it had stayed in relatively the same spot, and that that area was quiet enough for him to distinguish the dog's breathing from any other animals around him
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The other premise is that the boy walked into the area the dogs were in and instantly pointed at the yellow lab with no preamble