[nagdu] Bus seating

[Julie J]

Uhhh...no, it's pretty hard to fall off the floor.

Julie

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Albert J Rizzi" <albert at myblindspot.org>
To: "'NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users'" 
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Sent: Friday, April 02, 2010 3:13 PM
Subject: Re: [nagdu] Bus seating


> Wouldn't that be true where ever the dog was on the bus if in fact there 
> was
> an accident? To say nothing of pretty  Jules, as I am sure she is not
> buckled in either.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
> Of Julie J
> Sent: Friday, April 02, 2010 3:06 PM
> To: NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users
> Subject: Re: [nagdu] Bus seating
>
> 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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