[nagdu] How to Take Your Pet Everywhere

[Larry D Keeler]

Aggreed Marion! If for no other reason it reflects on us good handlers.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Marion Gwizdala via nagdu" <nagdu at nfbnet.org>
To: "'debby phillips'" <semisweetdebby at gmail.com>; "'NAGDU Mailing List, the 
National Association of Guide Dog Users'" <nagdu at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2014 7:23 AM
Subject: Re: [nagdu] How to Take Your Pet Everywhere


> Debbie,
>
> Well, as president of NAGDU, I feel I am qualified to answer this
> questions. If I am presiding over a meeting and there is someone with a 
> dog
> that is misbehaving, I have not only the right but the responsibility to 
> ask
> that person to remove the dog. In the message to the list, you said you 
> did
> not want to be the enforcer. Well, as the person presiding over a meeting,
> you are the enforcer - the person responsible for maintaining order during
> the meeting. I would even say that, if I am in a place of public
> accommodation and there is a dog that is out of control, I feel I have the
> right to either ask that person to get their dog under control and/or 
> advise
> the staff of that place that they have the right to ask that person to
> leave.
>
> I believe disabled individuals are more focused upon asserting their
> rights than taking responsibility. With every right there is a concomitant
> responsibility. When businesses begin to know and assert their rights, 
> those
> with out of control dogs - service animals or not - will begin to accept 
> the
> responsibility of respecting the rights of the general public. JMHO!
>
> Fraternally yours,
> Marion Gwizdala
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagdu [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of debby phillips
> via nagdu
> Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2014 11:14 PM
> To: Vivianna; NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog
> Users; nagdu at nfbnet.org
> Subject: Re: [nagdu] How to Take Your Pet Everywhere
>
> I think that this is a very awkward issue.  In a former life (no, not
> reincarnation), but before NFB days, I was president of a guide dog user
> group.  There was a woman who had a service dog, not a guide.  Her dog was
> very ill-behaved, barking at people, growling, and being a regular 
> nuisance.
> A woman came to a meeting where the other woman was with her service dog.
> The little dog misbehaved, and the other woman was quite incensed, asking 
> me
> why I didn't kick her out.  I told her that it was not my place to do so.
> We had to go through a whole email discussion about this, and I never did
> convince her that I was correct.  She said that NFB would have kicked her
> out.  I told her that the hotel had the authority to ask that the dog be
> removed, but I did not.  It left a very sour taste in my mouth.  I did 
> not,
> and do not want to be the Enforcer.  If I have to be then I certainly will
> do it, but it's not my place to do that just because I may
> be president.  But what say you?    Peace,    Debby and Neena
>
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