[nagdu] dogs and canes

S L Johnson SLJohnson25 at comcast.net
Tue Jul 14 19:55:00 UTC 2015


Hi,

Eva and I hated all the canes too.  Sometimes they would walk three or four 
people all in a row not leaving the dog a safe path to travel.  When we were 
sitting in meetings the canes would hit Eva as she stayed quietly tucked 
under my chair.  The canes were horrible in the exhibit hall.  I especially 
got upset when the cane user would keep hitting Eva when I had told them she 
was there.  I can't tell you how many times she hid her head behind my legs 
to keep from being hit in the face by someone holding their cane too high 
off the floor.  When  using a cane in a crowded convention around guide 
dogs, the cane user should glide the cane instead of lifting it up and 
tapping it.  Eva ad I hate hate hate canes, especially the extremely long 
ones loved by so many cane users, they are a danger to the rest of us.  I 
was tripped and fell many times because of the canes.

-----Original Message----- 
From: Debby Phillips via nagdu
Sent: Sunday, July 12, 2015 10:39 PM
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Cc: Debby Phillips ; jerupert at outlook.com
Subject: Re: [nagdu] dogs and canes

Hi Jack, just seeing this.  We're home now.  Nova was a little
freaked out by all the canes, too.  I just tried to talk softly
to her all the time, telling her what a good girl she was, and
encouraging her to keep walking.  Her biggest issue was other
dogs.  She was always wanting to pull over to visit.  Who knows?
We might have come across each other.

One suggestion for next time, and I did try to do this as much as
I could, but it was more difficult, as my husband and I were at
the Clarion.  That is, give your dog some breaks.  Go to your
room and just give him some down time; play with him a bit.  This
will relax him, and you too maybe.  Sometimes we would find a
semi quiet place to sit and just be together.  A friend of mine
also got an extra key to her room and we would go there sometimes
too just to give Nova a time out.  It's hard to do with a busy
convention schedule, but I decided a long time ago that if my dog
was stressed out, it was worth giving her time to settle down and
relax a little.  Before I came to NFB, I was in ACB and have been
going to conventions on and off since 1981.    Peace,    Debby
and Nova

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