[nagdu] Service dog killed on Portland bus

[Sam]

Personally, I'm wondering why either one of them were on the bus?

Sam


> ----- Original Message -----
>From: "Claude Everett" <ceverett at dslextreme.com
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>Date sent: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 08:31:22 -0700
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>Just by reading the article the dog killed was a companion dog 
not a real
>service dog.  And***  what reason  was the Rot wilder  on the bus 
for? was it
>a service animal?
>Regards,
>Claude Everett
>American by chance, Californian by choice.
>Everyone has a disability, some are more aware of it than others.
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the united
>states, it is that when you let others speak for you, you lose."
>Ed Roberts

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>From: nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] 
On Behalf
>Of Jennie Facer
>Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 7:07 AM
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>That is really sad!

>Jenn

>TO THE WORLD YOU ARE SOMEONE, BUT TO SOMEONE YOU ARE THE WORLD!

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>Of Ginger Kutsch
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>Subject: [nagdu] Service dog killed on Portland bus

>Service dog killed on Portland bus
>10/28/2008,
>The Associated Press
>http://www.oregonlive.com/newsflash/index.ssf?/base/news-27/12251
82546240560
>..xml&storylist=orlocal
>PORTLAND, Ore.  (AP) - TriMet, which increased security following 
a series of
>high-profile assaults involving humans, is now faced with a 
brutal case of
>dog-on-dog violence.

>The attack happened late Sunday afternoon when Leroy Morley and 
his 50-pound
>Rottweiler mix were walking toward the front of the bus to exit 
in North
>Portland, said Peggy LaPoint, a spokeswoman for the mass transit 
agency.

>Marie Kelemen, the owner of the victim, said the bigger dog 
neither growled
>nor barked before breaking the neck of Buddy, the 7-pound 
Pomeranian that
>bled to death in her lap.


>Transit police responded to the scene.  Morley was allowed to 
leave, but has
>been barred from riding TriMet buses and trains for 30 days.

>Kelemen, 59, of Portland said the penalty is not severe enough.  
"It was
>horrible," she told The Oregonian newspaper.  "It was terrible.  
That's why 30
>days is ludicrous."

>The Pomeranian was a service dog and therefore authorized to ride 
the bus.
>The larger dog was not.

>The case has been referred to Multnomah County Animal Services, 
spokesman
>John Rowton said.  "But we haven't seen the report, and we're 
waiting for a
>copy of the video from the bus' surveillance camera."

>TriMet's Web site states that service dogs are allowed to ride 
buses and
>trains but must be kept on a leash or in a carrier.  The 
definition of a
>service dog is broad.  According to the Americans with 
Disabilities Act, a
>service animal can be "any guide dog, signal dog or other animal
>individually trained to provide assistance to an individual with 
a
>disability."

>Kelemen said she has a doctor's note that authorized Buddy to be 
her
>companion dog.  "He was such a nice little guy," she said.  "It's 
awfully
>quiet without him."

>___

>Information from: The Oregonian, http://www.oregonlive.com

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