[nagdu] Really? Come on man!

[Lisa Belville]

Well, I think it depends on the dog and how well you know your dog's 
strengths and weaknesses.  My last dog was a very steady alpha female Lab. 
Nothing intimidated her.  I wouldn't have too many issues taking her through 
one of those because I knew how she would react.  We worked together for 
just under nine years, so I saw her reactions to all kinds of situations--  
traffic checks, fireworks, people dressed in costumes, power outages, severe 
weather, etc., and she was rock steady the whole time.  The only remotely 
aggressive thing she did was growl at another working dog who came around a 
corner and surprised her, and that happened after we'd been together for 
three years and it never happened again.

I've had my current dog, a yellow Lab/Golden cross  for just under five 
months.  No way would I put her in that kind of a situation.  I don't know 
enough about how she works under stress or how she reacts to unexpected 
totally unavoidable incidents except she's a barker and my last dog only 
barked during doggie dreams.

So I wouldn't be overly judgmental about people bringing their dogs to 
certain events.  I'd never take my dogs to a live concert, but plenty of 
people do it all of the time and don't have negative consequences.  I'm sure 
that if you polled the schools, they'd all give a resounding NO to taking a 
dog to a haunted house, but then many schools discourage taking dogs to zoos 
or doing other activities many dog handlers do in the course of their 
working with a dog.

Lisa Belville
missktlab1217 at frontier.com
A bus station is where the bus stops. A train station is where the train
stops.  On my desk I have a work station...


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "James Alan Boehm via nagdu" <nagdu at nfbnet.org>
To: "National Association of Guide Dog Users Gwizdala" <nagdu at nfbnet.org>
Cc: "James Alan Boehm" <secretary at nfb-tn.org>
Sent: Saturday, October 31, 2015 7:37 AM
Subject: [nagdu] Really? Come on man!


>I thought my voice over was making up stuff when I read my Nagdu digest 
>this morning. I have one thing to say…Come on man! Really? Do you think 
>your dog knows what is really going on? Do you think your dog knows what is 
>play, what is fake and what is  real? Do you think your dog knows that if 
>you scream or if others scream around you that it is not legit?  I know 
>taht we want to be able to bring our dogs anywhere we want to go. I 
>understand that we want to experience things like anyone else. However, 
>with our rights and wants, come the need for discernment, wisdom, and 
>reasonableness.Are we considering  what is best for our dog? I hope that if 
>you decide to put your dog in such an enviornment that you please strongly 
>consider the risks and affects that may occur to your dog. is it worth 
>dramatizing your dog and compromising his future work so a few minutes of 
>scares? Come on man.
> James Alan Boehm
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