[nagdu] commands

[Lyn Gwizdak]

Oh, I forgot to say that I was smiling when I said that I thought he was too 
old to be a boy - all in a very pleasant voice.  He had this hurt kind of 
tone to his voice and not challeging at all.  So we had a chuckle when he 
realized I meant him no harm or disrespect.

Lyn and Landon
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tami Kinney" <tamara.8024 at comcast.net>
To: "NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users" 
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Sent: Saturday, November 05, 2011 12:45 PM
Subject: Re: [nagdu] commands


> Yikes! As long as everybody ended up with a good laugh, that's the 
> important thing. You gotta admit, that one really is funny, even though 
> the underlying tensions are not. Still, everybody laughed, and that is 
> never bad. /grin/
>
> On 11/05/2011 10:51 AM, 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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