[nagdu] always taking the dog was guide dogs

[Linda Gwizdak]

Rox,
Does your dog also perform hearing dog tasks while you're out and about?  I 
think it is safeer for you to have your dog with you at all times.

Oh, didn't know about the doggie prade connected with Marti Gras. Wow!  And 
the Super Bowl parade as well?  I saw that on the news.

Lyn and Landon
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> Julie and Buddy are right; bringing, or not bringing the dog is a very 
> personal choice.
>
> I am Deafblind with other "invisible" disabilities.  I always have a dog. 
> If I can't take her some where, such as to a private home, then I don't 
> go.  My dogs  have gone to all kinds of places and because I train my own 
> dog it is easy for me to spend lots of time preparing for, and training my 
> dog in, these types of environments.  I live in New Orleans and I was in 
> the French quarter the morning of the Super bowl.  It was a zoo because it 
> was also the Barkus parade-- the dog parade for Mardi Gras.  It was chaos. 
> My dog just handled it as if it were any other day.  It is physically 
> impossible for me to be independent without a dog or  another person by my 
> side and since I like my dog better than I like most people, and since she 
> does a better job for me than anyone else could, she always goes with me. 
> I realize this choice puts me in the minority but it's just the way I have 
> to do things to keep my independence and my sanity.
>
> Rox
>
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