[nagdu] EXTERNAL: Puppy raising

[Linda Gwizdak]

Dan, you're not alone on this one - I don't like Big Brother, either! LOL! 
So Amen to you on this!

Lyn and Landon
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dan Weiner" <dcwein at dcwein.cnc.net>
To: "'NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users'" 
<nagdu at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Friday, July 30, 2010 1:27 PM
Subject: Re: [nagdu] EXTERNAL: Puppy raising


> How are you deciding that "people who shouldn't have dogs" might get them
> and what constitutes your criteria for who should have a dog?
> So, if people who shouldn't have dogs, in quotes, get them, than wasn't it
> the poor judgment of the school rather than a question of ownership?
> I do believe in total unfettered and unrestricted ownership, though I see
> that I'm in a minority--smile.
> Most of us apparently want big brother watching us.
>
> A yearly vet report won't stop, for example, the people I myself think
> shouldn't have dogs, the ones who in my judgment correct the begeezes out 
> of
> their dogs.
> Or those who are yelling at their dogs, that bugged me more than, say, an
> uncontrolled dog before I had a dog. Now I have a dog and know things
> happen, but I have a mental check list of people I have met who I think
> would do the dog and themselves a favor by not having one--smile.
>
> Remember, that's my judgment, if a training facility doesn't   think 
> certain
> grads should have dogs  then they will need to do better at selecting or
> training.
> A blind person is still a person.
> I love dogs more than I can say, actually, but facts are facts, people 
> need
> to be given consideration, blind people too--smile.
> We're not just people who have been granted a dog and therefore must be
> watched because the dog is more important than we are and being a blind
> person with a guide dog, we might and probably will abuse our dogs..
> If the schools are so sure we will abuse our dogs, then think twice about
> training them for us.
>
> I personally despise slime balls who abuse their dogs, but will a school
> owning our dogs and subjecting us to yearly check  lists stop that?
> Evidence suggests that it won't.
> The Seeing Eye grants ownership, as I understand, I have not, however, got
> the impression that more Seeing Eye grads mistreat their dogs than any 
> other
> school's grads.
>
>
> Remember not attacking you, just expressing my opinions as you are
> expressing yours.
>
> Cordially,
>
> Dan W.
>
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