[nagdu] Jury finds IA Dept. for Blind's guide dog policydoesnotdiscriminate

[lindagwizdak at peoplepc.com]

Hi Dar,
I think that your friend did the right thing in sending back their guide dog 
upon learning that they really did better with the white cane. I have seen 
so many people who get dogs and they leave it home all the time.  The dog 
becomes an expensive pet. I woould rather see a person send the dog back so 
it can go out with another person who will work the dog as it has been 
trained.  Lets face it, some people get dogs and then discover they really 
prefer the cane. That's perfectly OK. We need to know ourselves and what is 
best for ourselves.

I don't think people should make the committment to having a guide dog just 
because someone talked them into it. I think the person really has to WANT 
that dog on their own.  However, some people see others with dogs and they 
think that they may want one themselves.  They go to the school and 
sometimes they find out then that a dog isn't for them and they go home 
without a dog.  Sometimes, as time goes by, they find that a dog doesn't 
really fit into their lives and they either keep the dog as a pet or send it 
back to the school. I think it is just as bad to bug people to get a dog as 
it is to bug people because they have a dog.

Regards,

Linda and Landon
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "d m gina" <dmgina at samobile.net>
To: <ntorcolini at wavecable.com>
Cc: <nagdu at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Friday, February 20, 2009 6:53 PM
Subject: Re: [nagdu] Jury finds IA Dept. for Blind's guide dog 
policydoesnotdiscriminate


> Have you found anyone who wishes not to go threw the programs if they 
> can't use their dog?
> I remember being on the GDUI board, when I got a call from someone who 
> said that they felt they did better with a cane than their dog.
> So they sent the dog back to school.
> I have to say I tried hard to talk them out of it, but the dog went back 
> to school.
> I found that interesting.
>
> -- 
> --Dar
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> every sinner has a future
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