[nagdu] Ownership of guide dog

[Brenda]

You have a very good point Rebecca. For my pet dogs, I keep their collar 
with all the rabies and yearly license tags.
brenda

On 3/13/2012 8:38 AM, Pickrell, Rebecca M (TASC) wrote:
> While I understand this to some extent, I'd like to know if this has happened and any real impact it had on the schools.
> We found a picture of me hugging my first guide dog. I'm smiling and it's Christmas. We know because the tree is also in the picture. It's a great picture.
> When we found it, a flood of emotions came back, and I literally sat down on the floor and cried.
>
> Both my dogs are gone now.  I deeply regret not keeping their harnesses and leashes, as they are objects I can touch, and were so important.  This is especially true as my daughter has begun to want me to tell her about each dog.
>
> The picture is now framed and on our wall.  My husband was able to get the collar of my first dog from the family who adopted her, and we have that hung up too.
>
> I do wish I'd kept both harness and leash combos.
>
> I understand the schools' point of view.  I used to agree with it.  I don't anymore.
>
> I have never heard of  a school suffering negative impact from someone using a harness or leash that they shouldn't. I have to wonder if the schools have thought of the emotional impact of returning the harnesses and leashes.
>   I suspect they have not.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Cindy Ray
> Sent: Monday, March 12, 2012 5:24 PM
> To: NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users
> Subject: Re: [nagdu] Ownership of guide dog
>
> No, I doubt it. They say they want them back, I think, so that they won't get sold to people who will use them in a phony way, such as putting on their dog to pretend it is a guide.
>
> Cindy
>
> On Mar 12, 2012, at 4:16 PM, Hannah Chadwick wrote:
>
>> Cindy,
>> I thought it's because the harnesses and leashes are expensive and that's
>> why they are loaning them out to us.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
>> Of Cindy Ray
>> Sent: Monday, March 12, 2012 1:54 PM
>> To: NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users
>> Subject: Re: [nagdu] Ownership of guide dog
>>
>> That is an interesting analogy about the harness being the keys. TSE
>> maintains ownership of their harness;they have never asked for it back; I've
>> always returned them because I had no reason not to. But that is an
>> interesting analogy. I don't want them retaining ownership of my dog and
>> they don't, but I don't have a problem with them retaining ownership of my
>> harness, which I didn't even know about until recently. What is that about?
>> I do not know.
>> Cindy
>>
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