[nagdu] Blind Teacher's guide dog Attacked

Tue Oct 4 02:13:14 UTC 2011

Julie, I wholeheartedly aggree!  Not only do owners let there dogs go ahead 
and visit they also bring them over especially when your dog is working!  I 
let Holly visit when she is off harness only under very controlled 
conditions!  These same folks are usually the ones who encourage there kids 
to pet your dog without asking you!
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Julie J." <julielj at neb.rr.com>
To: "NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users" 
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Sent: Monday, October 03, 2011 12:27 PM
Subject: Re: [nagdu] Blind Teacher's guide dog Attacked


> Oh the soap box...first I must drag a cumfy chair up there...
>
> Okay my pet peeve is folks with dogs that want to visit or at least the 
> owners want their dog to visit.  Sometimes the dog is well mannered, but 
> usually he's at the end of the leash bopping up and down, gasping for 
> breath.  Sometimes it's over exuberance to greet and sometimes it's thirst 
> for blood.  either way I'm not allowing my fingers to get anywhere near 
> that and I'm certainly not allowing my guide to be exposed to that frakus.
>
> Or the owners that have their dog in the yard with them off leash.  Then 
> when I walk by the dog goes all Cujo, barking and growling a few feet 
> away.  The owner will generally stand on the porch drinking their beer, 
> calling the dog repeatedly.  Of course the dog never gives the owner even 
> the slightest acknowledgment.  Eventually the owner will come to collect 
> the dog.  Never is there an apology for the inconvenience to me and 
> sometimes I am admonished for upsetting their dog.
>
> And if one more person asks me if my dog is in training because I correct 
> him for being distracted  during one of these encounters, I will scream!
>
> I'm done with the soap box.  Next?
>
> Julie
>
>
>
> On 10/3/2011 11:12 AM, Sam Hogle wrote:
>> 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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