[blparent] Leashes (was resource list)

[Peggy]

Raping the dogs??  Now that's a new one!!  I have heard some pretty crazy 
things being a dog user but never that one!!  Um er yuck!



-----Original Message----- 
From: Erin Rumer
Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2012 4:35 PM
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Subject: Re: [blparent] Leashes (was resource list)

Oh yes!  I heard it all when I was working for Guide Dogs for the Blind in
Portland, Oregon.  The funniest one was a woman who came by the training van
screaming at us about how we were raping the dogs.  The trainers and I had a
good laugh about how that woman obviously doesn't know what we do with guide
dogs and that we'd hate to see what she does with her pets, ouch! LOL

Erin

-----Original Message-----
From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Jo Elizabeth Pinto
Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2012 2:23 PM
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Subject: Re: [blparent] Leashes (was resource list)

When I worked in downtown Denver, the Peta organization (People for the
Ethical Treatment of Animals) was pretty active down there.  Two or three
times, the PETA members would get all around me and link arms in a circle,
and then start barraging me with accusations of how I enslaved my guide dog,
how she should be free--to get hit by somebody's Buick I guess--and how
animals shouldn't be subjected to involuntary servitude.  Seriously.  And I
couldn't get away from them because they wouldn't break the circle, once I
even missed the bus.  So I started pretending I was deaf and couldn't hear
what they were saying, till they gave up.  But it is true that some people
have very radical ideas about animals and leashes.

Jo Elizabeth

"A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a
song."  Maya Angelou

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From: "Angie Matney" <angie.matney at gmail.com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2012 12:45 AM
To: "Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Subject: Re: [blparent] Leashes (was resource list)

> There are also people who think it is cruel to put a leash on a dog.
> Quite a radical view, I know. But some people do feel that way.
>
> Personally, I think the little backpack/harness things in the shape of
> animals sound great. When Jacob is a bit older, I'll probably have
> something like that in my arsenal.
>
> Angie
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