[nagdu] service dogs and people's fears or allergies

[Lyn Gwizdak]

It's amazing how some parents try to force their kid to pet our dogs when 
they clearly don't want to.  I tell the parent to leave the kid alone and 
that the kid has more sense than the parent has! LOL!

Lyn and Landon
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Cindy Ray" <cindyray at gmail.com>
To: "NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users" 
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Sent: Sunday, July 24, 2011 3:04 PM
Subject: Re: [nagdu] service dogs and people's fears or allergies


> They probably wouldn't have touched him anyway. I had a scared experience 
> from a little girl at the Iowa Dept. for the Blind. I was coming out of my 
> floor and she saw him and screamed; I went back in and then I went 
> downstairs another way. Later the same child came into the break room when 
> I was in there. When I got ready to leave, I told the child I was going to 
> leave but the dog wouldn't hurt her. Her mother asked if she might pet 
> him. I said that she could not unless she herself wanted to; she didn't.
>
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