[nagdu] PETA was calling the program was researching programs

[Ginger Kutsch]

Dear Kolby,

It's a Class II misdemeanor in NC to harass a guide dog team.
Pasted below is the relevant excerpt from the NC Statute. You may
want to share this with your campus police. 

Chapter 14. Criminal Law. Subchapter VI. Criminal Trespass.
Article 23. Trespasses to Personal Property.§ 14-163.1.
Assaulting a law enforcement agency animal or an assistance
animal 

(d) Unless the conduct is covered under some other provision of
law providing greater punishment, any person who knows or has
reason to know that an animal
is a law enforcement agency animal or an assistance animal and
who willfully taunts, teases, harasses, delays, obstructs, or
attempts to delay or obstruct
the animal in the performance of its duty as a law enforcement
agency animal or assistance animal is guilty of a Class 2
misdemeanor.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kolby Garrison" <kolbygarrison at triad.rr.com>
To: "'NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog
Users'" 
<nagdu at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Sunday, February 14, 2010 10:14 AM
Subject: Re: [nagdu] calling the program was researching programs


> Hello Jenine and All,
> I love you Jenine, because you get it. As a resident advisor in
a 
> residence
> hall on my college campus, I cannot stant it when residents
come to me 
> with
> complaints about other residents. My first question whenever I
receive a
> complaint is have you addressed the issue with the person you
are
> complaining about? Residents' responses the majority of the
time are no. I
> usually tell them to address the issue with the person first,
and talk to 
> me
> about the issue again if the disruption does not cease. I also
have had
> people from peta stop me while Sunny and I are out and about on
campus and
> tell me how cruel I am to make that dog work for me. Peta
people have
> threatened report me to animal control, have threatened to take
Sunny away
> from me, have threatened to remove Sunny from her leash, have
removed 
> Sunny
> from her leash, or have lectured me about animal cruelty. The
few times 
> that
> they have removed Sunny from her leash, Sunny has stood beside
me and 
> looked
> up at me without moving a muscle. The few times that the peta
person 
> called
> her to come with them, she refused to move. I praised her for
that one. I
> love how dogs know people better than humans do, and if Sunny
is directly
> telling me that she does not like someone by putting herself
between me 
> and
> the person whom she does not like I listen to her. If only the
peta people
> could see Sunny whenever she is out of harness, or if they
could see her
> when I take her harness and leash off of the door knob where
they hang. 
> They
> would understand that she loves her job, and that she receives
abundances 
> of
> exercise, play, and love.
> Just my two cents worth,
> Kolby
>
>
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