[nagdu] More about Bringing Our animals to the Zoo

[Sherry Gomes]

I have to start by saying there's nothing in the world that would make me go
to a zoo. I went once as a child and it upset me so badly I've never wanted
to go back. My concern about taking service dogs into the zoo, and I'd love
to hear people's experiences with it, is not so much the zoo animals, but
the dogs. Do the dogs get over stimulated or frightened? I remember a long
long time ago, GDB took some dogs into the san Francisco zoo and had mixed
reactions from the dogs. some handled it like it was nothing and some were
over stimulated, and some were terrified. I'm curious for those who have
done this how their dogs have reacted. Just curious, since I'll never
willingly go to one again, dog or not. lol.

Sherry



-----Original Message-----
From: nagdu [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Marion Gwizdala
via nagdu
Sent: Thursday, May 07, 2015 8:08 AM
To: 'NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users'
Cc: Marion Gwizdala
Subject: Re: [nagdu] More about Bringing Our animals to the Zoo

Tara,

	One of the elements of this work is to teach zookeepers how to
desensitize their animals to the presence of dogs so that disabled people
accompanied by their service dogs will have the most optimum experience
available. The Lowry Park zoo where we will be working this Saturday has
already done this with most of their animals, including their big cats. The
purpose of the grant will be to teach other zoos how this can be done and to
employ the resources of our membership to help it happen.

Fraternally yours,

Marion Gwizdala, President
National Association of Guide Dog Users Inc.
National Federation of the Blind
(813) 626-2789
(888) 624-3841 (Hotline)
President at nagdu.org
http://www.nagdu.org

High expectations create unlimited potential for the blind!


-----Original Message-----
From: nagdu [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Tara Briggs via
nagdu
Sent: Thursday, May 07, 2015 9:27 AM
To: NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users
Cc: Tara Briggs
Subject: Re: [nagdu] More about Bringing Our animals to the Zoo

Hi all, several years ago, before I got my own guy dog, I went to the zoo
with some blind friends. One of my friends used to guide done. When we were
looking at the Tigers, The tiger wanted to eat my friends dog. It was
jumping at the dog and acting very interested. There was no way the tiger
and the dog could meet. However, the dog  was rather stressed. This incident
has made me think that it might not be a good idea to bring my dog to the
zoo. I would be interested in any thoughts!

Sent from my iPhone

> On May 6, 2015, at 5:22 PM, Applebutter Hill via nagdu <nagdu at nfbnet.org>
wrote:
> 
> Marion,
> I just visited the Harness Up blog, and I'm not finding any Share 
> buttons. I use a WP posted site as well, and it's a bit tricky to 
> enable Sharing, as it requires "Drag and Drop." In this instance, my 
> opinion is that the feature is well worth getting sighted help to 
> enable. I could have shared it to
> 6,000 people on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and Google+ in a couple of 
> minutes, if the Share feature had been enabled. Just a thought.
> Blessings,
> Donna & Hunter
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagdu [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Marion 
> Gwizdala via nagdu
> Sent: Wednesday, May 06, 2015 5:13 PM
> To: 'NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users'; 
> 'Florida Association of Guide Dog Users'; New Jersey Association of 
> Guide Dog Users; nagdu-leaders at nfbnet.org; coagdu at nfbnet.org
> Cc: Marion Gwizdala
> Subject: [nagdu] More about Bringing Our animals to the Zoo
> 
> Dear All,
> 
> 
> 
>                Many of you know that the National Association of Guide 
> dog Users, a strong & proud division of the National Federation of the 
> blind, along with the Association of Zoos & Aquariums (AZA), has 
> applied for a grant to help educate zoo staff to the presence of 
> service animals in their facilities. This project is moving forward 
> and I would like to invite everyone to visit our harness Up! Blog to 
> read more about our efforts. While you are there, you may want to sign 
> up to our RSS feeds to update you when new posts are published. To 
> read our blog, please visit
> 
> 
> 
> Harnessup.wordpress.com
> 
> 
> 
> Fraternally yours,
> 
> 
> 
> Marion Gwizdala, President
> 
> National Association of Guide Dog Users Inc.
> 
> National Federation of the Blind
> 
> (813) 626-2789
> 
> (888) 624-3841 (Hotline)
> 
> President at nagdu.org
> 
> http://www.nagdu.org
> 
> 
> 
> High expectations create unlimited potential for the blind!
> 
> 
> 
> 
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