[nagdu] How do any of you deal with small children wanting totouch your guide dog

Sat Apr 9 19:10:22 UTC 2011

Hi Sheila ,
There are some people that Harvard doesn't like and backs away from, this 
doesn't happen very often. Harvard for some reason doesn't like people that 
smell like they have been  drinking, Does any body else have a dog like 
that?   Harvard is also a lab and loves attention.

-----Original Message----- 
From: Julie McGinnity
Sent: Friday, April 08, 2011 9:10 PM
To: NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users
Subject: Re: [nagdu] How do any of you deal with small children wanting 
totouch your guide dog

This topic has brought up something I wonder about.  My dog Brie is a
labrador, and, like a typical lab, she loves attention.  I don't let
people pet her for that reason.  She would get too distracted.
Anyway, she loves most people and will start wagging if they begin
petting her, but I've also seen her back away when some people try and
pet her.  I don't know why she does this.  This has only happened a
couple of times, and it kind of freaks me out because she is not like
that.  I always wonder what she can sense about those people she is
avoiding.  Has anyone else experience this?  I've always been told
that dogs can sense things about people that we can't, but I never
really believed it much until this dog.  Her attitude is so strange
sometimes.

On 4/8/11, Sheila Leigland <sleigland at bresnan.net> wrote:
> We know a bus driver that is afraid of dogs,
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lisa Irving <lirving1234 at cox.net>
> Sent: Friday, April 08, 2011 12:17 AM
> To: NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users
> <nagdu at nfbnet.org>
> Subject: Re: [nagdu] How do any of you deal with small children
> wanting totouch your guide dog
>
> I spent more than a decade, in one capacity or another, working with
> children of all ages and all kinds of ethnic backgrounds. From my
> perspective, I view kids and dogs somewhat globally. That is, especially 
> the
> very young children, and children previously traumatized by dogs, I want,
> when I have time, to let them see that they don't have to be fearful of
> dogs. I hear, typically, African American moms tell their children, leave
> the dog alone or it will bite you! It's a delicate walk to discern when to
> gently interject and when to zip my lips and keep moving.
>
> Lisa and Bernie
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "solsticesinger" <solsticesinger at gmail.com>
> To: "NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users"
> <nagdu at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2011 9:43 PM
> Subject: Re: [nagdu] How do any of you deal with small children wanting
> totouch your guide dog
>
>
>>I don't think you were wrong. Petting while in harness is definitely a
>>personal preference, but I have always had a hands-off-my-dog sort of
>>policy. Plus, I'm not a huge child person. So, I explain to people that
>>she's working, and that I don't want her to be distracted. Sometimes, it
>>upsets kids that they can't pet my dog, but I figure it's not the end of
>>the world. There will be plenty of things to upset them in life, and my 
>>dog
>>
>>isn't there to keep them from getting hurt feelings.
>>
>> Shannon and the unpettable Caroline
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>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Brittney N. Mejico" <brittneymejico at verizon.net>
>> To: <nagdu at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2011 9:29 PM
>> Subject: [nagdu] How do any of you deal with small children wanting to
>> touch your guide dog
>>
>>
>> Hi everyone,
>> The other day this lady got mad at me for not letting her 4 year old 
>> touch
>>
>> my guide dog.  I kind of felt bad afterwards, do you think It was rong 
>> for
>>
>> me to tell her no?  I tried to be as polite as Possible.  Do any of you
>> have any tips on what I should next time that happens again.
>>
>>
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Julie McG
Lindbergh High School class of 2009, participating member in Opera
Theater's Artist in Training Program, and proud graduate of Guiding
Eyes for the Blind

"For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that
everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal
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