[nagdu] Dogs at work

Tue Dec 3 03:20:57 UTC 2013

WOW.  Thanks for the feed back.  I asked my boss what Lifetime Fitness said about employees with service animals.  We both agree that the dog can not be in the laundry room where I work,  I want the dog to be in a space just outside the laundry room door.  Yes People would have to go around the crate when it is up, but I don't think it is a big deal.  I have seen covers for crates that look quite nice.  So far my boss as been OK with it all.    When he said we could put the dog on a different floor, I thought, that didn't sound right to me, and I wanted to know how you guys felt, if that was something that happened often or not at all.  
I work at a small fitness club, but we have a lot of stuff in it.  I want to make sure that where the dog ends up, that it is safe.  I don't want to have the dog on another floor.  Like someone said a few e mails back, if the dog is far away, you can't get to him in an emergency.  
I know that if the dog is sitting where people can see him, it will be a distraction, but after a short while the newness of having the dog around will ware off.  

thanks so much, now if I need to talk to my boos about things, I at least have some things to say to him about how other people deal if their guide dogs.  
Barb 

----- Original Message -----

From: "Craig Heaps" <craig.heaps at comcast.net> 
To: "NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users" <nagdu at nfbnet.org> 
Sent: Monday, December 2, 2013 11:54:21 AM 
Subject: Re: [nagdu] Dogs at work 

I would ask the schools for advice.  They deal with countless situations, 
likely more than anyone in this forum deals with. 

My employer is very acoomodatiing.  I am able to have Chase sleep on a bed 
next to my desk.  It was part of the accomodation I requested -- that my 
desk be in a low traffic area where he could have a bed.  They also gave me 
a locker next to my own where I can store his bed when I leave work. 

You might have to frame his proximity to you as an issue of accomodation 
under the ADA,.  But I am not an expert in the law or in accomodation for 
guide dogs. 

Craig and Chase 

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Shannon Dyer" <solsticesinger at gmail.com> 
To: "NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users" 
<nagdu at nfbnet.org> 
Sent: Monday, December 02, 2013 8:28 AM 
Subject: Re: [nagdu] Dogs at work 

> First of all, what kind of work do you do? If you do something involving 
> food, I think there are regulations that state how close the dog can be to 
> the actual food. I'm not sure about that. 
> 
> My dogs have always been near me when I've worked. The only exception was 
> when I did home visits. I didn't think it was appropriate to bring her 
> into people's homes. Normally though, my dogs have hung out quite 
> comfortably under my desk. 
> 
> Shannon and the Acelet 
> On Dec 1, 2013, at 9:50 PM, barbandzoe at comcast.net wrote: 
> 
>> 
>> I am almost ready to send my application in to a couple of guide Dog 
>> schools, when my boss said,  we would have to crate the dog on a 
>> different floor then the one i work on.  I don't know about you, but I am 
>> not happy about that, and don't like it.   I don't want the dog somewhere 
>> that I can't keep an eye on things.  I don't know who can go up where the 
>> dog is and bother him.  If I can't have my dog where I know what is going 
>> on around him, then I don't think I will apply for one. 
>> Am I wrong in this thinking, or do many people who have dogs have them 
>> crated far away from where you work.  I know that guide dogs are a loud 
>> everywhere, but what are rules for where they are kept while at work. 
>> 
>> I just don't know what to do. 
>> 
>> Barb 
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