[nagdu] Impressions Please?

Tue Aug 4 15:06:49 UTC 2009

Wayne,

I used to get them at either of my neighborhood pet stores, but I think I've
asked at Petco, and they have them there, too.  I need to resupply, so I'll
check again.

They may come in different sizes, but the ones I use are quite large as
mittens so would probably fit a man's hand.  They certainly hold plenty of
poo, with a lot of room at the top to tie them closed.

They're shaped like a mitten, so you can pick up the stuff very easily, or
feel around for it without having the bag slip off your fingers or your
thumb just as you find it.  Or does that only happen to me?  /smile/  So you
just wrap your safely mittened hand around the pile, pick it up and hold
onto it while you pull the mitten off inside out.  Hey, Presto!  There's a
long enough neck that you can just tie a nice knot and still carry your
prize even if you have other stuff in your hand.  Or to throw in someone's
window to demonstrate that the dog did, indeed, do something! /evil grin/

They are also very good at containing the odor while you wander the streets
looking for a garbage can.  /smile/

Tami Smith-Kinney

-----Original Message-----
From: nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
Of Wayne Merritt
Sent: Thursday, July 30, 2009 5:08 PM
To: NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users
Subject: Re: [nagdu] Impressions Please?

Tami: out of curiosity, where do you get those Scoopies and can you
describe them more? Such as, is it a large bag or more of a scoop, or
a combination?

Many thanks,
Wayne

On 7/30/09, Joy Relton <jrelton at verizon.net> wrote:
> Awe, that old dignity thing. Dogs are somewhat like kids in that respect.
> You can be in a very nice restaurant and they will announce loudly about
> their need to go. If you are the more bashful type, they can even be more
> specific than you'd like. After a while, you just  have to let the water
run
> off your back. Those people are obviously short of things to do. Think of
> it, while they're being nasty to you, they're leaving someone else alone
for
> a while. I know what you mean, though, it doesn't hurt if someone else
gets
> a turn once and a while.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
> Of Tamara Smith-Kinney
> Sent: Thursday, July 30, 2009 10:05 AM
> To: 'NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users'
> Subject: Re: [nagdu] Impressions Please?
>
>
> Yikes!  Talk about no excuses!  Good grief!
>
> My real beef with that attitude is that so many people believe guide dog
> users -- or blind people with dogs -- are that irresponsible.  So I'll be
> going along minding my own business, and my dog will look at someone's
lawn
> or sneak in a sniff at the grass, and the next thing I know some yo-yo
> starts going on about how I can't just go around having my dog, er, go in
> and just walk off and leave it.  Er....  And if we stop to do #1 in the
> grass by the curb?  And if poo regularly appears and remains on the route
we
> use for our constitutional, guess whose it is?
>
> This doesn't happen to me a lot, but I could live without it happening at
> all.  There's just no dignity to be had standing around arguing about your
> dog's doo-doo.  /smile/
>
> Tami Smith-Kinney
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
> Of Joy Relton
> Sent: Monday, July 27, 2009 6:26 AM
> To: 'NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users'
> Subject: Re: [nagdu] Impressions Please?
>
> Oh Cindy,
>
> I told people that we would handle the running free part. In this instance
> the dog was still in harness and my husband had walked her to the
relieving
> area and should her where the bags and trash can and everything is
located.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
> Of Cindy Ray
> Sent: Sunday, July 26, 2009 8:00 PM
> To: NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users
> Subject: Re: [nagdu] Impressions Please?
>
>
> Joy, yes, I agrfee with you as well. I believve that one of our
> responsibilities as a dog handler is to pick up after our dogs. There are
> people enough who don't even believe we can. I have had people express
> amazement at this. But it is our responsibility, specially when we are
shown
>
> by one of the members of the household where bags and the like are. Not
sure
>
> about the dogs running free though. How would you handle a b unch of dogs
in
>
> your yard. How would people know whose? I mean, if dogs do this while
> running, who cleans up after them? Does it become a community effort?
>
> Cindy
>
>
>
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