[nagdu] How to Take Your Pet Everywhere

[Brett Sample]

I agree too! We work hard to have well trained dogs and gain acceptance, we should not allow our example to be ruined by others.

Brett and Ziva
On Oct 16, 2014, at 8:23 AM, Larry D Keeler via nagdu <nagdu at nfbnet.org> wrote:

> 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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