[nagdu] Explaining to parents that guide dogs are useful

[The Pawpower Pack]

Hi Mark,

You may need to wait until you are out on your own before you can get  
a guide dog.  That is what I had to do.
When I told my parents that I was getting a guide dog, they were not  
supportive.  My mother was very angry and was predicting my failure  
and loss of independent function.  I got a guide dog anyway because I  
was living in my own place by that time, and eight months after I got  
my dog, I went to a family event and it was my mother who was the most  
crazy about my dog.  I've had dogs for twelve years now (OMG I am so  
old) and she loves them.

However at first, before I got the dog, she was the biggest and most  
vocal opponent.

Hang in there.

Rox and the Kitchen Bitches
Bristol (retired), Mill'E SD. and Laveau Guide Dog, CGC.
"It's wildly irritating to have invented something as revolutionary as  
sarcasm, only to have it abused by amateurs." -- Christopher Moore
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