[nagdu] Therapy dog

Mon Jun 29 01:54:27 UTC 2015

This was what someone else said, and I recall that it was. I have tried twice to get them to let me do this. It is not their business, and I know my dog. He would be fine.
Cindy

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Subject: Re: [nagdu] Therapy dog

Cindy,
This sounds like TDI— Therapy Dogs International.  This is their nation wide policy for all service dogs.  I know some people are trying to fight it. 
I agree, it's not anyone's business but yours if you decide to have your dog do therapy work.   

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> On Jun 28, 2015, at 4:58 PM, Cindy Ray via nagdu <nagdu at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Well, I can't remember the name of the agency; I will have to ask 
> again next time I go to the hospital to volunteer as a chaplain. They 
> are one of the bigger ones in the country I think. They said that the 
> dog would have to have retired as a guide because it would confuse the 
> dog if it switched between guiding and a role of therapy dog. I kind 
> of suggested that this might be my decision and that I thought he was 
> plenty capable of telling the difference, and they got just a little snarky with me.
> Cindy
> 
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> Hill via nagdu
> Sent: Sunday, June 28, 2015 4:53 PM
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> Subject: Re: [nagdu] Therapy dog
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> Even with the harness off, it's still a guide dog, and harnesses are 
> not necessary for service dog accessibility to apply, if they're 
> trying to claim that. Who are they anyway to tell you what functions 
> your service dog can or cannot perform? Are they guide dog trainers? 
> This just sounds like prejudice to me.
> Donna & Hunter
> 
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> via nagdu
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> Cc: Cindy Ray
> Subject: Re: [nagdu] Therapy dog
> 
> Except that the therapy dog program that refused me the opportunity to 
> certify my dog said that it confuses the dogs if they are doing both 
> guide work and therapy work. For instance, in a hospital, you would 
> take the harness off and let the person love on them or whatever, and 
> at that point the dog would not be a guide. Now, theoretically, in the 
> read program you would be taking off the harness. Of course, I'm just 
> playing devil's advocate there because I think it should all be a no 
> brainer, and with those kind of credentials and a well trained dog I 
> don't see the difference either.
> Cindy
> 
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> Ianuzzi via nagdu
> Sent: Sunday, June 28, 2015 10:31 AM
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> Cc: Jody Ianuzzi
> Subject: [nagdu] Therapy dog
> 
> Hello Karla and all,
> 
> I have been thinking of Karla's post and I have a few ideas I would 
> like to share.
> 
> First of all and most important is the issue of therapy dog.  The 
> purpose of getting a therapy dog certification is to be able to take a 
> dog places where a pet dog is not allowed.  A guide dog already has 
> this certification.  To be a READ dog the dog sits quietly and pays 
> attention to the child who is reading.
> A guide dog would do this.    Therefore the whole idea of getting the 
> certification is totally unnecessary.
> 
> As for safety, I love the way schools always throw that out as a 
> barrier to anything they don't like.  Some schools even say a blind 
> child can't use a white cane for safety reasons.  This is just 
> hysteria to put up another barrier.
> 
> As for Karla's qualifications, they should be thrilled to have a PhD 
> and retired professor assisting with their students.  Instead they 
> don't understand how a blind person can help a child read.  Really?  
> Give me a break.  When my children were learning to read they would 
> read out loud to me and when they came to a word they didn't know I 
> would have them spell it and we would sound it out together.  Again, 
> the school is putting up another barrier.
> 
> So lets remove all the barriers and what do we have left?  Plain and simple 
> prejudice.   If it were me I would first decide if I really wanted to be in 
> such an environment or if there were a better place to volunteer where 
> I would be appreciated like the public library reading program.  If I 
> decided to fight the prejudice I would first  talk to the person 
> putting up all the barriers and I would tell them exactly how I felt 
> discriminated against by their behavior.  If they still insisted on 
> their position I would go to the next level up all the way to the 
> Superintendent of schools and if they still closed the door to me I would contact the media.
> 
> Just my two cents but really the therapy dog certification is not the 
> issue here.
> 
> JODY ??
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