[NAGDU] {Spam?} Guide Dogs And Canes

[Cindy Ray]

Sandra, I am the moderator of this list. You first of all need to let this stuff go. I appreciate the pain, but you don't do yourself or anybody else any good by rehashing it all. You have made it plenty clear time after time that you hate canes and, to the extent that it makes any sense I understand. These folks who use canes are blind. People do get caught up in moments, and they are certainly not always courteous. Dog users are not always courteouseither. People sometimes who use canes are self-absorbed because for whatever reason they are nervous, mostlikely because they haven't been traveling with one all that much, especially in new places. They deserve some compassion as you do.
If you persist in the bashing, and if you insist in being disrespectful to the moderators, you will be asked to leave the list. There is no earthly reason why you need to go off on this diatribe every time anyone brings up an issue remotely related to the dog vs. the cane, which the issue wasn't in the first place. Please take a deep breath and try to respect all of us here.
Cindy Lou Ray, Moderator


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Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2016 5:58 PM
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Subject: [NAGDU] {Spam?} Guide Dogs And Canes

I have a very valid reason for hating long canes.  My little three year old golden Eva still suffers from chronic infections in her left eye after being hit by a cane at our 75th anniversary convention.  At that same convention I was tripped several times by the long canes and suffered multiple injuries. 
That isn’t good for someone like me who already had to deal with severe arthritis and multiple sclerosis.  It would be nice if the cane user’s would be more careful when around our guide dogs.  I can’t imagine ever attempting to use a cane to work with my guide dog.  Oh, by the way, Eva isn’t my first dog to be hurt by a cane, it has happened to three of my previous guides over 40 years.  Vet bills for injured dogs are very expensive and loss of vision for a guide is traumatic.  Now you know why I hate them, especially the extra long NFB canes!!!  Oh if you don’t like what a person is saying, and it is the complete truth even if you don’t want to admit it, then just hit the delete key.  Stop being word police and stopping valid conversations.  This is not comunist Russia!!!  It is the United States of America where we have the  right to free speech.

Sandra and Eva, who hates all canes!!