[nagdu] contact with puppy raisers/walkers

[Margo and Arrow]

This is also why Seeing Eye does not want anyone to help you pay for your 
dog.

Seeing Eye does what it can to not have exploitation crop up.

Margo and Arrow
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jenine Stanley" <jeninems at wowway.com>
To: "'NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users'" 
<nagdu at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2010 4:59 PM
Subject: [nagdu] contact with puppy raisers/walkers


> Although GDF does allow contact with puppy raisers/walker, I do feel the
> need to defend TSE's no-contact policy. It has nothing, absolutely 
> nothing,
> to do with you being an adult. It's about the principle of anonymous 
> giving,
> selfless giving.
>
> I've been in a workshop where a puppy raiser actually said "I raised these
> dogs. I'm entitled to pet them whenever I want. You people are too mean to
> them, never write back and don't deserve them."
>
> The man who said this totally embarrassed his family and does not 
> represent
> all puppy raisers/walkers, but his opinion, or variations thereof, are out
> there and make up the wide reasons people do raise puppies.
>
> Also, not everything your dog does now is a result of things it did as a
> puppy or was illegally allowed to do. I've heard from puppy walkers who 
> were
> crushed when hearing about their dogs' behavior as guides and were berated
> by the handlers for allowing X, Y or Z when they did no such thing.
>
> I think those who have issue with TSE's puppy contact policy should read 
> in
> the literature exactly why it was established. It screams respect for the
> adult nature of blind people.
>
> Jenine Stanley
> jeninems at wowway.com
>
>
>
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