[NAGDU] Mom service dog has puppies in Tampa airport, while dad service dog looks on

Sat May 26 17:22:28 UTC 2018

That should mean the female dog can't work during her pregnancy and for
several weeks after since she will be nursing the pups. It may be a cute
article, but what if that had happened during the flight? Just another
issue we have to deal with. Also, if a dog is not fixed you have to deal
with all of those issues, too.

On Sat, May 26, 2018 at 1:15 PM, Tami Jarvis via NAGDU <nagdu at nfbnet.org>
wrote:

> The dogs may not have been from an organization. The lack of availability
> and the expense of obtaining many other types of service dogs means the
> percentage of dogs that are owner-trained or trained by a private trainer
> is much higher than with guide dogs.
>
> There's a lot of debate these days about spaying and neutering, the
> possible health risks, etc. The debate has been going on for a few years at
> least, so it now involves a lot of etc. A lot of people now firmly believe
> that spaying/neutering is bad for the dog, so I suppose that includes some
> service dog users. Which is to say that, yeah, we just might see more of
> that sort of thing.
>
> The article didn't mention whether the pregnancy of the mother dog was
> intentional on the part of the owners or not, but that's not what the
> article was about. Cute golden retriever puppies in an airport! /lol/ My
> opinion of the whole affair is not high, but I don't know enough to form an
> intelligent opinion, so I'll have to wonder until something else comes up
> in my day.
>
> Tami
>
> On 05/25/2018 05:58 PM, Deb and the girls via NAGDU wrote:
>
>> Don't other service dog organizations know they are supposed to spay the
>> females before they go out with the handler?  I can see we will have more
>> of
>> this kind of thing happening. Lord help us.
>>
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>> Subject: [NAGDU] Mom service dog has puppies in Tampa airport, while dad
>> service dog looks on
>>
>> Mom service dog has puppies in Tampa airport, while dad service dog looks
>> on
>>
>> By Cristopher Spata May 25, 2018
>>
>> http://www.tampabay.com/news/Mom-service-dog-has-puppies-in-
>> Tampa-airport-wh
>> ile-dad-service-dog-looks-on_168575820
>>
>>
>> TAMPA - Travelers killing time at Tampa International Airport's Gasparilla
>> Bar got an unexpected show Friday when a dog gave birth to eight puppies
>> near Gate F81.
>>
>>
>> The 2-year-old golden retriever, Eleanor Rigby, owner Diane Van Atter, and
>> the puppies' father, Golden Nugget, were waiting to board an afternoon
>> flight home to Philadelphia when the dog went into labor.
>>
>>
>> They missed the flight, and for the next three hours created a fuzzy
>> spectacle as crowds gathered with phones trying to capture the scene.
>>
>>
>> The puppies were delivered with assistance from Tampa Fire Rescue
>> paramedics
>> stationed at the airport, as well as a nurse who had to leave halfway
>> though
>> the delivery to catch her own flight.
>>
>>
>> Other passengers came and went, casually sipping their coffees and
>> charging
>> their phones as they watched puppy after puppy delivered on the carpet,
>> airport spokeswoman Emily Nipps said.
>>
>>
>> "I've never seen anything like this in an airport, or otherwise," she
>> said.
>>
>>
>> Van Atter said she has mobility and pain issues, Nipps said, and the dogs
>> were service dogs, though Eleanor Rigby was still in training.
>>
>>
>> Van Atter's stepmother, Karen James, of Bradenton, was also set to fly to
>> Philadelphia. She said they knew Eleanor Rigby was pregnant, but believed
>> the excitement of being in the airport around so many new people may have
>> triggered the early birth.
>>
>>
>> James was talking to the Tampa Bay Times by phone from the airport when
>> people started cheering in the background.
>>
>>
>> "Another one just came out!," she said.
>>
>>
>> She was holding Golden Nugget on a leash.
>>
>>
>> "I have to go, the father is getting excited," she said. "Every time she's
>> ready to deliver another one he starts jumping around."
>>
>>
>> James said the plan was to find a dolly somewhere in the airport to carry
>> the pups and mother out. Then they'd go back to Bradenton where everyone
>> would get some rest before figuring out how to drive to Philadelphia with
>> a
>> new litter.
>>
>>
>> No planes were delayed and all the puppies were successfully delivered.
>> Seven males, and one female.
>>
>>
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