[nagdu] Dogs at work

[Craig Heaps]

You might want a sign on the crate that says "I am a service dog.  Please 
don't feed me.  And please don't talk to me without asking Barb first."


----- Original Message ----- 
From: <barbandzoe at comcast.net>
To: "NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users" 
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Sent: Monday, December 02, 2013 7:20 PM
Subject: Re: [nagdu] Dogs at work


> 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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