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Brother, can you spare a dime? (Photo credit: Guide Dog Foundation for the Blind)

It figures! The one steady line of work available to us dogs is now possibly endangered because of some overzealous young engineering students at Central Michigan University. They’ve developed a prototype of a robotic guide dog that helps guide blind people, and keeps them from obstacles — two of a guide dog’s primary responsibilities. It does this by use of radio frequencies and ultrasound technology, according to an article in the RFID Journal, a brainiac publication.

We can see blind people (if you’ll forgive the expression) lining up for blocks to get one of these robotic creatures. We have no idea what the robots look like, but even if they’re not cute and furry, they already have too much going  for them: They don’t shed, they don’t smell, and they don’t need to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night.

We highly recommend that guide dogs everywhere unite and form a solid union that can’t be busted — even by some plastic canine wannabe that can do no wrong. (We may be exaggerating its grandiosity a little bit, but frankly, it’s rather cathartic.)