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

Lisa Irving lirving1234 at cox.net
Mon Apr 11 01:08:00 UTC 2011


I have an  aversion to people that reek of booze. You're dog is discerning.

Lisa and Bernie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brittney N. Mejico" <brittneymejico at verizon.net>
To: "NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users" 
<nagdu at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Saturday, April 09, 2011 12:10 PM
Subject: Re: [nagdu] How do any of you deal with small children wanting 
totouch your guide dog


> 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.
>>>
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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
>
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> everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal
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