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I wonder why they stop the training/business, we will have now baboon guides for blind people or something similar.

Baboons are pretty terrifying, they wouldn't make a very good service animal if you expected to be around other people.

That's what they used to say about * people

You could breed it out of them in N generations.

Wolfs are terrifying too!

You could try but you might end up breeding out the very qualities that made them useful as well.

The breeder would need to select for both types of traits.

It would just take a very long time, with no certainty of success.

The Russian Fox domestication experiment has come pretty far in 60 years: