[nagdu] a couple questions

Wed Dec 8 15:02:11 UTC 2010

Heck, my Braille skills are pitiful due to an injury, but no big deal.
Animals have rights, and one of them is to be well taken care of.  If you
aren't wiling to do that, you shouldn't have one.
Jordan

-----Original Message-----
From: nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
Of Julie J
Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2010 8:45 AM
To: NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users
Subject: Re: [nagdu] a couple questions

My point isn't about fleas or rabies.  It's about making judgments. 
Deciding who is worthy of having a guide dog smacks of Big Brother to me.

this deciding who should and who shouldn't have a guide dog is the same 
thing as judging one another's skills.  It isn't helpful and is usually 
hurtful.

I happen to be a fairly good traveler with either cane or dog.  My Braille 
skills are pitiful.  and if you want to see me break out in a cold sweat 
just ask me to make fried chicken. I'm okay with all of those things.  It is

who I am.

I did attend an excellent training center.  I worked in blindness rehab and 
am still very involved with my state agency.  Back in the day I did have a 
much more stringent view of what blind people *should* and *shouldn't* do or

be.  Yes, I looked down on and criticized blind people who went sighted 
guide all the time.  there was even a time that I thought guide dog use was 
a cop out.  I thought it perfectly reasonable that any blind person should 
be able to cook anything from the Julia Childs cookbook.  I was wrong, what 
can I say. Blind people are just people.

All I am saying is that I think we should live and let live.

Julie

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jordan Gallacher" <jgallacher1987 at gmail.com>
To: "'NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users'" 
<nagdu at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2010 8:19 AM
Subject: Re: [nagdu] a couple questions

> Actually, if you do things properly, you won't have those issues.  The 
> only
> reason you might is if you have a dog that has a lot of allergies like my
> first dog did.  Flea treatments lasted two weeks tops on him, and if you
> fail to notice problems like rabies or fleas you should take a hard look a
> if a dog is right for you.  Where I live is flea heaven most of the year,
> and with the exception of my first dog, which I did what my vet told me to
> do and resolved the flea issue, you will not have a flea problem is you do
> things correctly.  You have to prevent the problem from occurring in the
> first place.
> Jordan
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
> Of Julie J
> Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2010 7:05 AM
> To: NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users
> Subject: Re: [nagdu] a couple questions
>
> *> Then they shouldn't have a dog because they aren't taking care of it. *
>
> This seems rather judgmental. Sometimes we can do everything that is
> possible for our dogs and still, stuff happens.  What if I stay in a pet
> friendly hotel the night before my flight to Hawaii and there are fleas in
> the room from a previous guest?  Am I a bad guide dog handler?  What if I
> live in a rural environment, Like I actually do, and I decide to take a 
> nice
>
> walk in the park that borders a creek and wildlife area.  What if during
> that walk I have an encounter with an animal that has rabies?  See the 
> thing
>
> about animals with rabies is that they don't act normal.  You can't
> anticipate what in the world they are going to do.  Would this freak
> accident make me a bad guide dog handler?
>
> Sure some folks with guide dogs don't take care of them in a way that I
> would consider appropriate, but who am I to judge?  I know loads more 
> people
>
> who don't take care of their kids appropriately.  I do my best to help 
> them,
>
> but in the end it is their life and their choice.  I can't take their dog 
> or
>
> kid away and I can't tell them what is right for them.
>
> JMHO
> Julie
>
>
>
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