[nagdu] people taking pictures of dog or wanting to take pictures of your dog

Lyn Gwizdak linda.gwizdak at cox.net
Tue Feb 12 22:11:42 UTC 2013 

Hi Dar,
To be in a parade, one must be associated with a group who is in the parade. 
I march in our LGBT Pride parade with a group I belong to - actually, I'd 
have to split myself in twos or threes to march in all the groups I belong 
to that are contingents in the parade! LOL!  Landon and I are also in our 
neighborhoood Christmas Toyland Parade as part of our contingent from our 
Blind Community Center.  We have our Center's bus in it with the people who 
can't walk but several of our members with guide dogs do walk in the parade. 
We decorate our dogs in holiday collars.  Landon has learned how to walk in 
the street in a parade from the many street demonstrations we've been in 
over the years!  He has to teach the other guide dogs who NEVER walk in the 
street except for making street crossings. LOL!  We do have sighted help in 
helping us to keep in our contingent, tell us when to stop, turn, and to go 
after we stop to let the contingents to maintain proper spacing that keeps 
the parade moving smoothly along.  Some people just go sighted guide and 
heel their dogs.

For you, join a group that marches in your holiday parade and maybe you can 
march or be on a float in it.  It's alot of fun and people enjoy seeing 
guide and other service dogs in parades.  Remember that street pavement is 
usually hotter than regular sidewalks.  Streets are blacktop which sucks in 
the heat and most sidewalks are white concrete which repells some of the 
heat - depends on time of year and location.

For me to determine when I need to put Landon's booties on, I will place my 
palm flat on the street.  If I go, "Yow!" and pull my hand off in only 
seconds, it is bootie time!  If I can keep my hand there as long as I want 
to keep it there without discomfort, well, Landon can go barefoot.  People 
want to take Landon's picture in his booties is mainly because most people 
never give a hot pavement a thought when they briong their dogs out in 
parades - this happens in the Pride parade and street fairs because these 
are held in the middle of our summer heat with the strongest sunshine. 
Countless people have come up to me to thank me for putting booties on my 
dog and they tell me about the poor dogs who has less than attentive owners. 
Those dogs are picking up each foot over and over because their pads are 
burning on the blacktop!  Poor doggies!

Lyn and Landon

"Asking who's the man and who's the woman in an LGBT relationship is like 
asking which chopstick is the fork" - Unknown
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "d m gina" <dmgina at samobile.net>
To: <nagdu at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2013 2:32 PM
Subject: Re: [nagdu] people taking pictures of dog or wanting to take 
pictures of your dog


>I need to work with my dog with his booties.
> That is a swell idea in a parade to have him wear them.
> I would love to see us in the Christmas parade this year.
> How far advanced do you need to plan for this?
>
> Original message:
>> Hi Eve,
>> I can see what you mean about the labels, "partials or sighteds" and
>> "Totals" and the stigmas attached to them.  This sucks but is reality. 
>> It
>> is like in the Black community light skinned or dark skinned and the 
>> stigma
>> is more on the dark skinned as the totals are looked upon as less in the
>> blind community.  On both couonts it is wrong!
>
>> You should NEVER play second fiddle to anyone else just because they may
>> possess more or full eyesight.  I've seen this behavior mainly in the 
>> blind
>> schools where some people feel the need to dump on someone else - well, 
>> the
>> totals.  Partials have some sight so they would be in the "sighted camp"
>> even though partials get crap from both sides - fully sighted (you're not
>> really blind - you're faking it!) or totals who may begrudge partials for
>> having some sighted privilege.  But we all - totals and partials - really
>> get the crap from society that decides what we can or can't do based on
>> misconceptions, fear, and plain old bigotry rather than going to the
>> experts - those of us with the blindness.
>
>> The truth is that we are all blind and we all have alot of challenges
>> although they may vary.  I have friends who are fully sighted, partially
>> sighted, and totally blind - makes no difference to me.  I judge them on
>> what kind of person they are.  Yeah, I'm a low partial - I use a guide 
>> dog.
>> I used to be a high partial when I was a teenager and I rode my bike all
>> over town.  I agree, we should junk the labels and just become people 
>> with
>> some extra issues to be dealt with.
>
>> Oh yeah, I don't care who takes my dog's picture.  Landon's wound up on
>> people's Facebook! They all ask me first.  Landon was doing something 
>> cute
>> like lie with his head up and his front legs crossed like he was royalty! 
>> I
>> saw the pix and thought they were very cute.  They didn't take my 
>> picture -
>> just the dog.  The people who took the pix then asked me about guide dogs
>> and I used it as a learning/teaching moment. I have some of these cute 
>> pix
>> on my own Facebook timeline and i don't mind if my FB friends share them.
>> Many of these friends love Landon!  LOL!  Oh, who knows how many pix get
>> taken of Landon with his booties on as we march in the Pride Parade! 
>> Maybe
>> seeing Landon in booties will remind them to use booties on their own 
>> dogs
>> on hot pavement.  One never knows.
>
>> Take care,
>
>> Lyn and Landon
>
>
>> "Asking who's the man and who's the woman in an LGBT relationship is like
>> asking which chopstick is the fork" - Unknown
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Eve Sanchez" <celticyaya at gmail.com>
>> To: "NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users"
>> <nagdu at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Saturday, February 09, 2013 6:02 PM
>> Subject: Re: [nagdu] people taking pictures of dog or wanting to take
>> pictures of your dog
>
>
>>> I have no problem with my dog getting her picture taken as long as no 
>>> one
>>> talks to her and I am not in the picture without knowing. I may be 
>>> having
>>> a
>>> fat day or not have my makeup on or something. My dog is not as vain. 
>>> What
>>> does piss me off, in a side note, is the designation between sighted and
>>> totals. This always seems to come from the 'total' as they like to call
>>> themselves as seems to be a type of prejudice in that they feel they are
>>> more disabled or more blind than others. Sorry to vent on this, but it
>>> really pisses me off and I know I am not the only one who feels this way
>>> though many people will not say so. I would appreciate the terms going
>>> away. Thanks for the opportunity to get my word out. Eve
>
>>> On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 1:36 PM, cheryl echevarria
>>> <cherylandmaxx at hotmail.com
>>>> wrote:
>
>
>>>> Yes I am also with Lion International and the Brentwood Chamber of
>>>> Commerce and other Travel Agent Organizations.
>>>> But I do not let anyone come up to me and take a picture of me or Maxx.
>>>> These are different situations.
>>>> Have a great day to all. Bright and sunny after the Blizzard. Um isn't
>>>> Nemo a fish and Captain Nemo for 20,000 leagues under the sea, I just
>>>> don't
>>>> know where they get the names of these storms from.
>>>> Lol.
>
>>>> Disabled Entrepreneur of the Year 2012 of NY State
>>>> Leading the Way in Independent Travel!SNG Certified - Accessible Travel
>>>> Advocate!Cheryl Echevarria, Ownerhttp://
>>>> www.echevarriatravel.com631-456-5394reservations at echevarriatravel.comhttp://www.echevarriatravel.wordpress.com2012
>>>> Norwegian Cruise Line University Advisory Board Member.
>>>> Affiliated as an independent contractor with Montrose TravelCST -
>>>> #1018299-10Echevarria Travel and proud member of the National 
>>>> Federation
>>>> of
>>>> the Blind will be holding a year round fundraiser for the
>>>> http://www.NFBNY.org <http://www.nfbny.org/> after Hurricane Sandy and
>>>> other resources. Any vacation package booked between November 6
>>>> 2012-November 6, 2013 and vacation must be traveled no later than
>>>> 12/30/2014 a percentage of my earnings will go to the affiliate.  Also 
>>>> is
>>>> you book a Sandals for couples or Beaches for families and friends
>>>> resorts
>>>> vacation, $100.00 per booking will go to the affiliate as well.  You do
>>>> not
>>>> need to be a member of the NFB.org, just book through us.
>
>
>>>>> From: lkeeler at comcast.net
>>>>> To: nagdu at nfbnet.org
>>>>> Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2013 16:22:35 -0500
>>>>> Subject: Re: [nagdu] people taking pictures of dog or wanting to take
>>>> pictures of your dog
>
>>>>> Cheryl, sometimes I do and sometimes I don't.  I have a picture of
>>>>> Holly
>>>> and
>>>>> I with the bishop.  I also have a couple with the Knights of Columbus.
>>>>  AIn
>>>>> these cases, I allowed it to prove that these organizations will admit
>>>> and
>>>>> approve of blind folks and there service animals.
>>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>>> From: "cheryl echevarria" <cherylandmaxx at hotmail.com>
>>>>> To: "nagdu" <nagdu at nfbnet.org>; "nyagdu" <nyagdu at nfbnet.org>
>>>>> Sent: Saturday, February 09, 2013 12:05 PM
>>>>> Subject: [nagdu] people taking pictures of dog or wanting to take
>>>> pictures
>>>>> of your dog
>
>
>
>>>>>> Good morning everyone:
>>>>>> Nelson is busy shoveling the snow outside from Nemo, Blizzard 2013.
>>>>>> Anyway, while I was in Washington, D.C. this past week with some of
>>>> you. I
>>>>>> was talking with some members of the Utah Chapter and a woman, who
>>>>>> was
>>>> not
>>>>>> a member of the NFB, a guest in the hotel asked me if she could take
>>>>>> a
>>>>>> picture of Maxx.
>>>>>> I said no. She asked me why. Well first I said, "Because I do not
>>>>>> want
>>>> my
>>>>>> dog all over social media from strangers that I do not know", she
>>>> became
>>>>>> quite obnoxious about it. I put it to her this way. I said are you a
>>>>>> parent, she said yes. Well would you like any of your family or
>>>> children
>>>>>> to have there pictures taken by strangers posted all over the
>>>>>> internet.
>>>>>> That is not right.
>>>>>> Then she got it and understood.
>>>>>> Have you had the same issues. Sometime someone tells me that they
>>>>>> took
>>>> a
>>>>>> picture of me and the dog, and I get upset, only because they didn't
>>>> ask
>>>>>> and the same issue. I should be the one to post pictures and videos
>>>>>> of
>>>> me
>>>>>> and maxx if I want, but not strangers.
>>>>>> Cheryl
>
>>>>>> Disabled Entrepreneur of the Year 2012 of NY State
>>>>>> Leading the Way in Independent Travel!SNG Certified - Accessible
>>>>>> Travel
>>>>>> Advocate!Cheryl Echevarria,
>>>>>> Ownerhttp://www.echevarriatravel.com631-456-5394reservations
>>>> @echevarriatravel.comhttp://www.echevarriatravel.wordpress.com2012
>>>>>> Norwegian Cruise Line University Advisory Board Member.
>>>>>> Affiliated as an independent contractor with Montrose TravelCST -
>>>>>> #1018299-10Echevarria Travel and proud member of the National
>>>> Federation
>>>>>> of the Blind will be holding a year round fundraiser for the
>>>>>> http://www.NFBNY.org <http://www.nfbny.org/> after Hurricane Sandy
>>>> and other resources. Any
>>>>>> vacation package booked between November 6 2012-November 6, 2013 and
>>>>>> vacation must be traveled no later than 12/30/2014 a percentage of my
>>>>>> earnings will go to the affiliate.  Also is you book a Sandals for
>>>> couples
>>>>>> or Beaches for families and friends resorts vacation, $100.00 per
>>>> booking
>>>>>> will go to the affiliate as well.  You do not need to be a member of
>>>> the
>>>>>> NFB.org, just book through us.
>
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