[nagdu] Bus seating

[Julie J]

Jewel,

Setting aside the allowed part of this, I wouldn't put a guide dog on a bus 
seat for the simple reason that it isn't safe.  If the bus stops suddenly or 
goes over a large pothole or something the dog could easily lose balance and 
fall off the seat.

JMHO
Julie



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jewel S." <herekittykat2 at gmail.com>
To: "NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users" 
<nagdu at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Friday, April 02, 2010 1:22 PM
Subject: Re: [nagdu] Bus seating


>I know Albert mentioned this as a joke, but I wanted to tell everyone
> that you *can* offer your guide dog a seat. I spoke to several bus
> drivers, and all of them said that as long as the bus was not overly
> full and the dog behaved (which all guide dogs should!), they had no
> problem with a guide dog sitting in a seat on the buses that don't
> have room under the seat. I just thought I'd let people know that if
> you ask, it may be allowed, and is therefore an option for people
> whose buses don't have the underneath room for a poor squished guide
> dog.
>
> ~Jewel
>
> On 4/1/10, AnnaLisa Anderson <annalisa at sector14.net> wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> The buses around here don't have anywhere for your dog to go in the front 
>> or
>> the back where the sideways facing seats are.  Therefore I very rarely 
>> sit
>> up front, unless either I'm only going a very short distance, or if the 
>> bus
>> is super crowded.  Sometimes I will sit in the sideways seats in the 
>> back,
>> not so worried about Sunny getting stepped on back there, but it still
>> happens.  I much prefer the normal forward facing seats, and I usually 
>> try
>> to go 3 or 4 back on the right, so there is no wheelchair brace or 
>> diagonal
>> bar in the way.  And on the right so I can just have Sunny turn slightly 
>> and
>> back herself in.  She has gotten to be extremely good at backing in and
>> plopping herself down in the floor at the same time I am sitting down. 
>> Then
>> I put a leg on either side of her so she doesn't slide around, and we're
>> set.
>>
>> AnnaLisa and Sundance
>>
>>
>>
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