[nagdu] getting along with other guide dogs

[Julie J.]

I don't encounter other guide dogs very often, maybe 2 or 3 times a year 
depending on how much I travel to attend blindness events.   But it is 
extremely rare that I allow Monty to visit with other guide or service 
dogs.   I have never allowed this when he is working.  I have let him 
visit with one guide out of harness in my home.  I think if I were at a 
convention with other dogs who wanted to work out a play date type of 
thing I'd be very open to that, it just hasn't happened.

Anyway I was wondering how others approach this issue.  Do you like for 
your guide to meet and greet the other working dogs?  Do you do this in 
harness?  Are there circumstances that help you decide this on a case by 
case basis?   Does it make a difference to you whether or not the dogs 
get along or like each other?

The recent messages have peaked my curiosity.

Julie