[nagdu] re soul searching - Question

[Larry D. Keeler]

Brenda, sometimes its the way some folks do it!  Some folks will whack the 
dog a couple of times and don't seem to listen when you tell them the dog is 
there and you're moving it.  It isn't rude to find the dog with you're cane 
but to continue or tap harder.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brenda" <bjnite at windstream.net>
To: "NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users" 
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Sent: Sunday, July 08, 2012 8:37 PM
Subject: [nagdu] re soul searching - Question


> Not sure how/why it is rude for a cane user to tap/touch/"hit?"a guide dog 
> with his/her cane.  If a cane user is walking and swings his/her cane to 
> detect obstacles and encounters a guide, how is the cane user to know and 
> avoid contact??
> If the cane user said something snide after coming into contact with the 
> dog then that would be rude.
>
> I have no depth perception and my vision is blurred so I might see a guide 
> and tap him/her without meaning to just as I might touch a person in a 
> store unless I steer wway wide of the blur I see ahead of me.
>
> As for cane users being rude - I was sitting on the bus once and a guide 
> dog user nearly nailed the right side of my head where my good eye is 
> located with her purse as her guide lead her to a seat.  (The driver had 
> instructed her to go to the rear of the  small van/bus as that was where 
> there was more room, this was not a slight to her.)  I could see her 
> coming but didn't have the coordination to get out of her way.  As a 
> person with low vision I felt like I was being run over and neither the 
> driver or the guide dog user cared - the priority was the handler and 
> knowing she hit me, the handler didn't even say excuse me but rather acted 
> like she was following her dog and I should udnerstand.
>
> Everyone has their story to tell, and that is mine on this subject. 
> Please give me some tips for cane travel to avoid hitting guide dog teams.
>
> Thanks
> Brenda
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