[nagdu] Blind Teacher's guide dog Attacked

[Sam Hogle]

I agree completely Tami. Like you, Mason and I have been lucky so far, 
something surprising since our neighborhood has a few aggressive dogs 
that I don't feel are properly contained. In Georgia, invisible fenses 
seem to be a new trend, but I have found that they aren't allways 
affective. Anyway, I also agree with you about people not caring like 
they should. I tried taking Mason to the dog park for social reasons, 
but had to stop due to some owners thinking it was fine for their dogs 
to pick fights with others since their dogs were usually powerful enough 
to win. Luckily, Mason never got injurred, but that wasn't a chance I 
wanted to keep taking. After all, it only takes one fight. Then, I had a 
lady in my neighborhood whose aggressive dog caused us to have to stop 
our walk. She then yelled in an annoyed toan that she could not walk her 
dog untill we left. I'm sorry, but I refuse to walk past someone who has 
no control over her dog and risk said dog breaking away from her and 
attacking my well behaved though slightly distracted golden. Anyway, to 
me, if you're going to take on the care of another being, you need to be 
responsible about it, and not expect others to pick up the pieces. 
Anyone else want a turn on the soapbox?
Sam and Seeing Eye Dog Mason
On 10/3/2011 11:21 AM, Tami Kinney wrote:
> Sorry you had to experience that. Was your dog okay and able to work
> again? It is indeed very sad, and very traumatic to the handlers as well
> as to the dog. I'm stunned how many guide dog users in this area appear
> to have PTSD from an attack on their guides, past and/or present. I've
> been plumb lucky so far, and it makes my hair stand on end knowing
> that. /shudder/
>
> So still in these articles from all over the country, what I am failing
> to hear is what are the consequences to the owners of the dogs that
> attacked? I hear that here, too, in the local news coverage. A lot of
> emotionalism, people feeling bad in some way or another, there must be
> more laws, etc., etc. Not squat about how the owner of the dogs that
> attacked is going to pay for the damage and suffer some form of punitive
> consequences for not taking responsibility for a large dog with the
> tools to cause a lot of damage if it is not properly socialized, trained
> and managed. If people who can't take responsibility for their choices
> on their own know that if their choice in a dog -- large or small --
> will come back to them in a way they don't like, then perhaps they might
> be more motivated to take responsibility to prevent that before it
> happens? If the worst that happens to them is that they just need to
> find a new dog when theirs suffers the consequences of their
> mismanagement, then that's no big deal to them. I'm generalizing a lot,
> but I've known enough generally irresponsible people over the years and
> listened to them talk to realize that at some level they don't care who
> gets hurt so long as it's not them. Be it drivers who take the wheel
> thinking that they can do anything so long as no one is watching,
> because it would be bad if they got a ticket, to dog owners, to petty
> thieves or chronic moochers... So long as there is not consequences to
> them, they really are not concerned. Give that sort a big dog, and...
> It's not the dog that is the problem. It is the owner.
>
> Er... Now that I've got the soapbox all warmed up, anybody else what a
> turn? /grin/
>
> Tami
>
> On Mon, 2011-10-03 at 08:44 -0500, marilyn wrote:
>> Hi Everyone,
>> It is very sad that guide dogs get attacked. My first guide dog and I were attacked by a Sheppard and it was the worst feeling you can imagine. You feel so helpless. Its bad enough when one dog attacks but two.
>> As far as the term Seeing Eye Dog many people don't realize its the name of a guide dog school. People call many times my guide a seeing eye dog and I correct them by saying she is a guide dog from GDF. Seeing Eye is the name of a school in NJ.
>> Marilyn and Anna
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