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

[d m gina]

Yes my dog has done this from time to time, most of the time he would 
greet anyone.
I'm pleased when he knows the difference.
Good for your dog.

Original message:
> 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.

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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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