[nagdu] Impressions Please?

[Joy Relton]

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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