[nagdu] Bus seating

Sat Apr 3 22:34:30 UTC 2010

Wayne,

Neener, neener.  Mine doesn't shed!  /grin/  Though now I have to be sure
she's not carrying the other dog's hair on her by the time we leave the
house.  /lol/  Still, with another type of dog, I would be much more uptight
about such things as that.  Like you say, not everyone appreciates sitting
down on the bus to ride to an important business meeting only to discover
that they now have dog hair all over the backside of their new dark suit!
Or dress or whatever.

Tami Smith-Kinney

-----Original Message-----
From: nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
Of Wayne Merritt
Sent: Friday, April 02, 2010 1:25 PM
To: NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users
Subject: Re: [nagdu] Bus seating

There's also the smaller but equally annoying issue of dog hair. I'm
sure I've got a few stray dog hairs on my clothes and I'm okay with
that, but depending on the dog, the breed, and the time of year, there
could be a little or a lot. Others on the bus may not be as tollerant
of dog hair as we are, grin. Even if they are, there's the issue of
dark clothes an dlight dog hair. I've occasionally heard of blind
people that allow their dogs on the seat in cabs. How is this any
different? I'm with most others on this list, having a dog on the seat
is something that I wouldn't do or consider. If its someone's car and
they're okay with it, then that's one thing, but not on a public place
like a bus.

JMT,
Wayne

On 4/2/10, Julie J <julielj at windstream.net> wrote:
> 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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