[nagdu] pets on a train

[Buddy Brannan]

Yeah, not to mention allowing well-behaved pets in public places would solve the “fake service dog” problem. 

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Buddy Brannan, KB5ELV - Erie, PA
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> On Mar 6, 2015, at 1:23 AM, Raven Tolliver via nagdu <nagdu at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> This is not a first by any stretch. There are many places throughout
> the United States that already allow pets, large and small, on public
> transportation.
> Check it out
> http://www.dogfriendly.com/server/newsletters/features/transportation.shtml
> 
> This move by Amtrak is a step in the right direction. People will be
> expected to keep their pets in check by Amtrak and one another, and
> the people who have animals with foul behavior can be removed or
> penalized. Also, people have to pay for their pets, it's not like you
> can just walk on. Let me know if I got that wrong.
> Hopefully, businesses other than public transport will start making
> these allowances. I mean businesses outside of dog-friendly
> communities -- Wal Mart, Target -- businesses like that. There's no
> reason not to hold people to reasonable standards and high
> expectations when it comes to bringing their pets out with them.
> Observing people in dog-friendly communities, most people do a very
> good job of keeping their animals in check. It's not just the
> businesses people are worried about offending, but other pet owners.
> If your dog does something in a business, you could ruin it for
> everyone. If your dog is a nut job while other people's dogs are
> well-behaved, it makes you look bad. And so you don't want to be that
> person -- that person with the noisy dog, that person with the
> foul-smelling dog, with the dog that is out of control, with the dog
> that gets up in everybody else's business, that person who doesn't
> clean up behind their dog. So you are respectful and keep your pet
> respectable to be unoffensive and to keep from being embarrassed.
> These are unspoken rules that naturally arise out of simply giving
> people this freedom.
> -- 
> Raven
> You are valuable because of your potential, not because of what you
> have or what you do.
> 
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> On 3/5/15, Buddy Brannan via nagdu <nagdu at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>> I couldn't disagree with you more. Well-behaved pets, in Buddy's perfect
>> world, which this ain't, would belong anywhere people wanted to take them.
>> The key being well-behaved. Naturally, at least in the US, most pets are not
>> terribly well-behaved, but that's a people thing that could be fixed some
>> day.
>> 
>> --
>> Buddy Brannan, KB5ELV - Erie, PA
>> Phone: 814-860-3194
>> Mobile: 814-431-0962
>> Email: buddy at brannan.name
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> On Mar 5, 2015, at 7:38 PM, S L Johnson via nagdu <nagdu at nfbnet.org>
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> What a stupid idea.  Right now they talk about little dogs in carriers
>>> but,
>>> the next thing will be all kinds of pet dogs.  We have enough trouble now
>>> and laws like this will make it much worse.  Pets belong at home!!
>>> 
>>> Sandra and Eva
>>> 
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: nagdu [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Sherrill
>>> O'Brien
>>> via nagdu
>>> Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2015 2:46 PM
>>> To: flagdu at nfbnet.org; Nagdu
>>> Subject: [nagdu] pets on a train
>>> 
>>> Hello all,
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> A couple weeks ago I tried unsuccessfully to send out information about
>>> this
>>> proposed legislation, and now it has passed. This link to a Washington
>>> Post
>>> article should work. Hopefully, this change in Amtrak policy allowing pets
>>> on trains won't confuse some Amtrak staff into lumping us in with the pet
>>> bringers!
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Sherrill
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/in-the-loop/wp/2015/03/03/gop-house-and-
>>> white-house-agree-on-something-amtrak-funding-and-pets-on-a-train/
>>> 
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