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

[Sheila Leigland]

They do figure it out I don't know how eigher. Because we've only had theese two dogs for a couple of weeks, we don't know there negative responses yet only the positive ones o pet me love, me aren't i just so cute.

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From: Tamara Smith-Kinney <tamara.8024 at comcast.net>
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Subject: Re: [nagdu] How do any of you deal with small children wanting	totouch your guide dog

Julie,

Dogs and other animals do seem to have a sense about people.  I definitely
listen to my dog on that score to fill in the gap for the body language and
more subtle cues to intent and character I can not longer discern with my
eyes.  I joke about Mitzi's turn from shy child to social butterfly, because
it's such a contrast.  She is pretty choosy, though.  She still will
sometimes want to initiate a greeting, and I'm always appalled until I hear
her new best friend chuckling and making over her and telling me about how
they love dogs and have this or that dog or cat or whatever...  I'm still
embarrassed by these little breaches of etiquette, but I have to admit that
if everybody's that happy...  She's also pretty delicate in her approach,
and I think she's trading googly eyes with the person before she approaches