[nagdu] Guide dog injured on escalator

[Jeanette Beal]

Cindy - aren't moving walkways hilarious?  Drum was thrilled to find
one - he just stood there wagging.  Made me nervous but we did it once
just to try it.  I think he's decided all walks should go that way.
Too bad for him :)

On 11/13/09, Pickrell, Rebecca M (IS) <REBECCA.PICKRELL at ngc.com> wrote:
> That's true of any media story though. The old "If it bleeds, it reads"
> adage.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Tamara Smith-Kinney
> Sent: Wednesday, November 11, 2009 12:14 PM
> To: 'NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users'
> Subject: Re: [nagdu] Guide dog injured on escalator
>
> Cindy,
>
> Sad, but true.  Sigh.  I notice that there's always that sympathy play
> in
> these kind of media stories.  Poor, helpless blind person can't get out
> of
> his/her chair without the dog.  Sigh.
>
> Tami Smith-Kinney
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf
> Of Cindy Ray
> Sent: Sunday, November 08, 2009 7:24 PM
> To: NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users
> Subject: Re: [nagdu] Guide dog injured on escalator
>
> Well, I would probably find someone to care for the dog for me and would
> go
> to work as I know that I can go to work successfully without the dog,
> but I
> would also be concerned that the dog was getting the care it needed.
> Sadly,
> though, people really would be more attentive to the fact that we needed
> to
> sit at home bedcause we couldn't make it to work without the dog than
> they
> would be if we were inconvenienced by having to get care for that dog
> while
> we went to work without it. It brings out the sympathy more fully. I,
> personally, am plenty willing to be sympathetic about the accident in
> the
> first place.
>
> Cindy
>
>
>
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