[nagdu] pets on a train

Tracy Carcione carcione at access.net
Fri Mar 6 12:38:24 UTC 2015


I hope we're in a cultural shift, from the old no pets allowed way of
thinking to a new, well-behaved pets welcome world.  
Tracy

-----Original Message-----
From: nagdu [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Raven Tolliver
via nagdu
Sent: Friday, March 06, 2015 1:24 AM
To: Buddy Brannan; NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog
Users
Subject: Re: [nagdu] pets on a train

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.

Naturally-reared guide dogs
https://groups.google.com/d/forum/nrguidedogs

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-hou
>> se-and- 
>> white-house-agree-on-something-amtrak-funding-and-pets-on-a-train/
>>
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