[nagdu] extremely basic guide dog questions...

[Lyn Gwizdak]

Gary,
So many sighted people are lazy and just leave their dog's poop arouond. I 
know some guide dog users who are just as lazy!

What I hate is that people always blame us even though the poop in question 
clearly came from a Chihuahua or other toy sized dog!  Also, most people 
don't have their dog go on concrete off the curb - they have the dog use the 
grass and then leave the mess to get ground up in the lawnmower - YUCK! 
Landon curbs as much as I can.  He finds crap to eat in lawns.

At our blind center, there is a trail leading up out of the canyon where 
people come up with their dogs off leash.  the dogs smell where our guide 
dogs go in our relief area and then leave their own pile there.  The dog's 
owner fails to pick it up and we blind folks step in it and track it into 
our center.  People also leave their cigarette butts in our relief area as 
well where our dogs can get them.  They're not even supposed to smoke there 
sinse our center is in city park land and they forbid smoking there. 
Smokers have to go out by the road.

Lyn and Landon
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "GARY STEEVES" <rainshadowmusic at shaw.ca>
To: "NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users" 
<nagdu at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2011 11:28 AM
Subject: Re: [nagdu] extremely basic guide dog questions...


>
> Hi:
>
> Yes,  picking up is sometimes a point of discontent. First, I'm often 
> asked if, because I'm blind, I don't have to follow the laws and pick up 
> after my dog. I always have a good chuckel and say "because I'm blind I'm 
> going to be sure to attempt to pick up everything he does since I'm most 
> likely to be the one who steps in it if I don't!" No one has said anything 
> to me but there was a big dump right in front of my building that wasn't 
> picked up and I'm sure people were thinking it was me unless they actually 
> watch us and see that Bogart never does #2 in front of our building. He 
> has a couple of other spots he prefers more for that pleasure.
>
> It drives me nuts though how we, who are blind and have to really develop 
> systems to  pick up after our dogs are able to do this yet so many sighted 
> people are so bloody lazy that they can't pick up after their dogs. I'm 
> amazed that after a year in my neighbourhood I haven't mananged to step in 
> any other dogs mess yet (knock on wood) but isn't part of having a dog the 
> responsibility to pick up after it? Why are so many people unable to 
> manage this simple task? <big sigh>
>
>
> Gary
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Tami Kinney <tamara.8024 at comcast.net>
> Date: Wednesday, July 27, 2011 10:27 am
> Subject: Re: [nagdu] extremely basic guide dog questions...
> To: nagdu at nfbnet.org
>
>> Oh, you're not alone on having your dog blamed for untended
>> waste. If
>> it's lying on the groulnd and a guide dog lives nearby, guess
>> who did
>> it, and everybody knows that it is a true fact. I once had someone
>> threaten to call the police if my dog went on a public access grassy
>> spot. I ignored him after pulling my baggy out of my pocket and waving
>> it at him to demonstrate I was prepared for what she might do...
>> Then I
>> just got to stand there letting my dog sniff around, trying to
>> decide if
>> she had anything to do in that spot or not.  . So that was
>> fun. I was
>> almost disappointed when she decided she wasn't interested so
>> that I
>> took our show on the road -- or around the block, where she
>> found a
>> place more to her liking.  I really wonder if he would have
>> done it
>> while I was picking up, and what said cop would have made of the
>> matter. /evil grin/
>>
>> I did once hear of a female guide dog -- spayed, natrually -- being
>> blamed by an entire neighborhood for a litter of puppies another
>> femaledog produced unexpectedly. Guess it became quite a problem
>> for the guide
>> dog handler, since the puppies were big news and the dog's
>> siring of
>> them was something she got to hear about regularly.
>> /lol/ I don't
>> recall the tale clearly, but I believe the puppies weren't even part
>> lab.
>>
>> Still, if I never hear anyone yell at me again because my dog is
>> alwaysleaving stuff I don't pick up, even if they've never seen
>> the dog before
>> because we have never been there before, it will be too soon.
>> What is up
>> with some people? lol/
>>
>> Tami
>>
>> On Wed, 2011-07-27 at 00:04 -0600, Sheila Leigland wrote:
>> > Hi we live in an apartment on the second floor and we don't
>> mind taking them out but other dogs live here and they want
>> everything picked up which is good but if things weren't picked
>> up our dogs were blamed even if we could prove it wasn't them.
>> It wasn't worth the hassle and now the manager has seen our dogs
>> use the harnesses and knows that we are keeping up our part of
>> the bargain.
>> >
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