[NAGDU] Cleaning up after your guide dog?

[Cindy Ray]

I have to say this. One day I picked up after my dog and someone at seminary
said, " I don't see how you do that. Tat's amazing!" I said what's amazing
about it. They said it was amazing I could do that and couldn't see. I think
it might be amazing if you were doing tis job for money because you would
likely use sa shovel or something, but this never seemed amazing to me when
I first learned about it. It just made perfect sense.
Cindy Lou Ray
cindyray at gmail.com


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Hey Jen,

You think that's a gross question? Trust me. Believe me when i tell you.
Doggie doos are a regular topic of dinner conversation at the dinner table
at guide dog school. As in, "Did your dog go?" "Yeah, and it was a big
one..." And so forth. Oh yeah. We're known to go into some detail,
sometimes, about size, consistency, all sorts of things. 

So. How do we clean up after then? 

In the normal course of things, it's not as hard, nor as gross, as you'd
think. To start, our dogs enerally go on leash, so there's a pretty defined
area that they'll be going in. Generally speaking, when they stop, you'll
follow the leash down to the dog and feel its position. Squatting with a
sloped back (especially if it's a girl) means peeing. If it's a boy, you
can, umm, yeah...you can usually tell when he's peeing. It's kind of
entertaining, or else you know, small amusements for small minds, but you
get a couple of males peeing at the same time and I swear they're having a
contest to see which one can pee loudest. No need to worry in that case. If,
however, the dog's back is hunched over and curved, he or she is taking a
dump. Laying a railer. Making a deposit. Paying the taxes. Whatever. So you,
or I anyway, will keep my hand on the dog's back and point my toe in the
general direction of the business end. With a plastic baggie on my hand
(everyone carries them, right?), when doggie gets up, I simply pick up the
present, invert the baggie, tie it off, and it's all ready to go where those
kinds of things generally go. No muss, no fuss. All good, and quickly done. 

--
Buddy Brannan, KB5ELV - Erie, PA
Phone: 814-860-3194 
Mobile: 814-431-0962
Email: buddy at brannan.name




> On Feb 5, 2017, at 3:58 PM, Jen via NAGDU <nagdu at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi everyone,
> 
> This is kind of a gross question, but I've always wondered about this.
> 
> How do you clean up after your guide dog?
> 
> Jen
> 
> spiderweb1 at sbcglobal.net
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