[nagdu] Questionable web site

[Linda Gwizdak]

A professor at a college?! Oyevey!

Linda and Landon
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Wayne Merritt" <wcmerritt at gmail.com>
To: "NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users" 
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Sent: Sunday, June 21, 2009 10:17 AM
Subject: Re: [nagdu] Questionable web site


> I've never been asked for proof of ID for either of my Seeign Eye
> dogs. The only time that I wanted to see some ID from someone else was
> when my first guide and I came across a professor at a junior college
> who had a dog with him. When I talked with him later, he claimed that
> the dog was a "service dog." Though in the limited times we
> interacted, I didn't detect any sort of outward reason why he might
> need the dog; no blindness or other other outward sign. He told me
> that a policeman at the college asked him once about his dog and if it
> was a service dog, and this professor said, "Yes, he guides me through
> all my classes." I was sick when I heard this. I gathered from
> observation that this was the kind of guy who just liked to take his
> dog with him to work. The first time we crossed paths was when my
> guide and I came around a corner in a hall and the other dog, who was
> off leash, lunged at my dog, who lunged back. Some people around us
> thought it was funny, but it was all I could do to keep my trained
> guide under control and focused on me. Meanwhile, this professor was
> just calling and whistling for his off leash dog like it was no big
> deal. Though I never was able to ask him what his disability was, I'm
> glad I never took any of his classes. That would have been tense, :)
>
> Wayne
>
> On 6/19/09, Margo and Arrow <margo.downey at verizon.net> wrote:
>> sounds like a place for folks who want to claim their dogs are service 
>> dogs
>> can go for legal support.
>>
>> Margo and Arrow
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Buddy Brannan" <buddy at brannan.name>
>> To: "NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users"
>> <nagdu at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Friday, June 19, 2009 12:32 AM
>> Subject: Re: [nagdu] Questionable web site
>>
>>
>>> The site was
>>> http://www.bringyourdoganywhere.com
>>>
>>> Need we say more?
>>>
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