A friend of mine is going blind. He’s waiting for a seeing-eye dog.
All the major shuls in Pico-Robertson do not allow seeing eye dogs into their sanctuary. They say the kids will go nuts over the dog and things will get out of control.
Mark emails: I believe Rabbi M. Feinstein has a Tashuva/Psak on allowing Seeing Eye dogs in Shul and Yeshiva Ohr Sameach has some information on it here http://ohr.edu/ask_db/ask_