[nagdu] Cleaning up after dogs

[Nicole B. Torcolini]

What's even grosser  is when people don't clean it up at a convention,
someone walks in it, and then it gets tracked into the hotel.

-----Original Message-----
From: nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
Of Wayne Merritt
Sent: Monday, July 27, 2009 4:57 PM
To: NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users
Subject: Re: [nagdu] Cleaning up after dogs

You also run the risk by not cleaning up of walking in, orin your case
rolling in, a pile that you left and forgot about. That's never very fun,
grin.

Wayne

On 7/27/09, Mardi Hadfield <wolfsinger.lakota at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi every one,   There is an exemption for picking up after your dog in
> Tucson, if you are disabled. I am very lucky that my dogs prefer to go 
> in my yard before we leave. That being said, If my dogs did relieve 
> them selves when we were out in public, I would pick up after them. 
> Fostering dogs for rescue, there are always a lot of dogs in my home, 
> and I am expected to pick up after them on my own property. I do this 
> at dusk as i am very light sensitive, and when the sun is going down, 
> it is easier for me. I do have some residual sight, and I take a rake 
> and rake the entire yard and put it in piles and then pick it up and 
> bag it.I do occasionally miss a "turd" or two, but for the most part, 
> I think I do pretty good. I feel that I must do it as I don't want to 
> offend my neighbors, and I don't want some one to complain about the 
> dogs, and it is the law. It is not always easy to do this as I am doing it
from a wheelchair.  I have certain ways of doing it to make
> it some what easier.   I think, there is always a way to do some thing
even
> if you are physically handicapped.   If there were ever a time when I
could
> not do it myself, I would pay a "Pooper Scooper" company to do it. 
> There are companies that do this. I would probably cut back on the 
> number of dogs that I would foster. I some times have friends over to 
> my house and some times they do bring their dogs. They know that they 
> must clean up after their dogs. If some one does not do it, they are 
> not invited back. If I went to some one else's house and my dog 
> relieved on their property, I would pick up after my dog , because I 
> consider it a common courtesy. I know that there are some people that 
> don't pick up after their dogs because of the exemption, but I will 
> always do it because I think it is the right thing to do. JMHO  Have a 
> great day, Mardi and Shaman, and Nala, retired
>
> --
> http://wolfsinger-lakota.blogspot.com/
> _______________________________________________
> nagdu mailing list
> nagdu at nfbnet.org
> http://www.nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/nagdu_nfbnet.org
> To unsubscribe, change your list options or get your account info for
nagdu:
> http://www.nfbnet.org/mailman/options/nagdu_nfbnet.org/wcmerritt%40gma
> il.com
>


--
My blog:
http://wayneism.blogspot.com
My websites:
www.wayneism.com
www.whitecaneday.org

_______________________________________________
nagdu mailing list
nagdu at nfbnet.org
http://www.nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/nagdu_nfbnet.org
To unsubscribe, change your list options or get your account info for nagdu:
http://www.nfbnet.org/mailman/options/nagdu_nfbnet.org/ntorcolini%40wavecabl
e.com