[nagdu] commands

[Cindy Ray]

I've always wondered why when someone is giving you directions and you say "forward", they would think you were repeating their directions. Lyn, that is funny, too.


On Nov 5, 2011, at 12:51 PM, Lyn Gwizdak wrote:

> I was in a store once and I said "Good Boy" to my dog.  A black man was nearby and he said in a wounded kind of voice, "I'm not a boy."  I said to him that I thought he sounded a bit old to be a boy.  WE had a chuckle over that.  Glad it worked out that way - some black person could have thought I was being racist and calling him a boy in the manner the racists used to refer to black men that way. Who knows what he was thinking when he thought I was calling him a boy to be racist.  Maybe my response told him that I wasn't racist at all.  I would have said the same thiong to a white guy.
> 
> How funny that people think we are talking to them when I thought it was quite clear that we are talking to the dog - who talks that way to strange people on the street anyway! LOL!
> 
> Lyn and Landon
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marsha Drenth" <marsha.drenth at gmail.com>
> To: "'NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users'" <nagdu at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Saturday, November 05, 2011 7:58 AM
> Subject: [nagdu] commands
> 
> 
>> Hi List,
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> There was something mentioned on another list that sparked a very
>> interesting subject for me. Here is a situation for example. I am at school,
>> or out in the city or just traveling. Emma is sniffing something, and I tell
>> her to leave it, not in a loud voice but in a firm voice. I try to tell her
>> in a voice that she can only hear and that will not draw attention to me.
>> But to my surprise there is someone around. And they think I am speaking to
>> them, to leave me and my dog alone. I am not speaking to them, but they
>> become offended. Then I have to apologize.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Does anyone else have this happen? Or am I the only one?
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Emma comes from the Seeing Eye, I use commands like: Leave it, Hop up,
>> Fouie, Right, left, inside and outside are just some of the commands I use.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> If the above situation happens to you? How do you handle this? And if it
>> does not how do you give your pup commands?
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> I think the next dog I receive I will be teaching and then using commands in
>> another language. My reasons for this, that if I tell my dog a command, I
>> also do not want others to know what I am telling her to do. As some of the
>> sighted people around me have said, "No, no don't correct your dog, she is
>> being good." Or "no, no you need to go here or there, you should go to the
>> elevator."
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Interesting topic for discussion,
>> 
>> Marsha
>> 
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