[nagdu] Dogs walking on the left side

[GARY STEEVES]

Hi Tami:

Yeah, Bogart has that same issue thinking he is the only dog allowed in certain places. Not too long after I got him we were in our local pharmacy walking around and I could hear another fellow with a guide dog being guided by a store employee. I think his dog gave a low growel under his breath and Bogart did the same thing. I don't know what was going on with them but I perceived it as each of them going "hey, you're not allowed here, only I'm allowed in stores and restaurants, grr." Of course, my girlfriend was amazed that I heard all this before she even noticed the other fellow and his dog.

Maybe it's another poodle thing. :) I'm sure everyone on the list is sick of us going on about how unique our poodles are eh? <wink>

Gary


----- Original Message -----
From: Tamara Smith-Kinney <tamara.8024 at comcast.net>
Date: Wednesday, April 13, 2011 9:17 am
Subject: Re: [nagdu] Dogs walking on the left side
To: "'NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users'" <nagdu at nfbnet.org>

> Yup.  Sometimes I wonder if the reason Mitzi used to get so 
> confuddled and
> uptight when she encountered other guide dogs is because she 
> thinks they're
> doing things backward?  I've seen her use her little snarky 
> noise with other
> dogs, including Daisy, to suggest they do things properly the 
> way she does.
> At the park, it's amusing, and Daisy has her own ways of telling 
> Mitzi to
> shape up and remember her manners.
> 
> Among guide dog users, it is so totally not okay!  Took me 
> forever to
> convince her that when she sees a professional colleague she 
> just needs to
> keep doing her own job and let that dog do its job, even if it's doing
> things all wrong because it's all backwards.  It's been 
> awhile since I've
> noticed her noticing other guides when we go by them, so I only 
> know they're
> there because someone will say something about the other cool 
> guide dog.
> /lol/  First time it happened, I nearly tripped over my own 
> feet in shock
> before I grabbed a bunch of training treats to shove forcibly 
> into my dog's
> mouth to reward her for acting like a grown up I can take out in 
> publicwhere there might be other guide or service dogs.  /lol/
> 
> Anyway, I don't know what her real thinking was when she 
> discovered that
> sometimes other dogs are in stores or conference rooms or 
> walking the
> streets doing the same job she does.  They really seemed to 
> puzzle and
> fascinate her.  Silly girl.
> 
> Tami Smith-Kinney
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] 
> On Behalf
> Of Katrin Andberg
> Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2011 2:20 PM
> To: nagdu at nfbnet.org
> Subject: Re: [nagdu] Dogs walking on the left side
> 
> I believe the dog on the left dates to hunting dogs, with as 
> someone else
> said the firearm being on most people's dominant arm, the right arm.
> Livestock is also walked on the right, so dogs were at heel on 
> the left if
> they weren't actively herding the livestock.  In 
> traditional competition
> realm, obedience is done with the dog on the left.  Heel 
> position is the dog
> on the left side of the handler.
> 
>  
> 
> Katrin
> 
> Katrin at maplewooddog.com 
> 
>  
> 
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