[nagdu] Impressions Please?

[Wayne Merritt]

Tami: out of curiosity, where do you get those Scoopies and can you
describe them more? Such as, is it a large bag or more of a scoop, or
a combination?

Many thanks,
Wayne

On 7/30/09, Joy Relton <jrelton at verizon.net> wrote:
> Awe, that old dignity thing. Dogs are somewhat like kids in that respect.
> You can be in a very nice restaurant and they will announce loudly about
> their need to go. If you are the more bashful type, they can even be more
> specific than you'd like. After a while, you just  have to let the water run
> off your back. Those people are obviously short of things to do. Think of
> it, while they're being nasty to you, they're leaving someone else alone for
> a while. I know what you mean, though, it doesn't hurt if someone else gets
> a turn once and a while.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
> Of Tamara Smith-Kinney
> Sent: Thursday, July 30, 2009 10:05 AM
> To: 'NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users'
> Subject: Re: [nagdu] Impressions Please?
>
>
> Yikes!  Talk about no excuses!  Good grief!
>
> My real beef with that attitude is that so many people believe guide dog
> users -- or blind people with dogs -- are that irresponsible.  So I'll be
> going along minding my own business, and my dog will look at someone's lawn
> or sneak in a sniff at the grass, and the next thing I know some yo-yo
> starts going on about how I can't just go around having my dog, er, go in
> and just walk off and leave it.  Er....  And if we stop to do #1 in the
> grass by the curb?  And if poo regularly appears and remains on the route we
> use for our constitutional, guess whose it is?
>
> This doesn't happen to me a lot, but I could live without it happening at
> all.  There's just no dignity to be had standing around arguing about your
> dog's doo-doo.  /smile/
>
> Tami Smith-Kinney
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
> Of Joy Relton
> Sent: Monday, July 27, 2009 6:26 AM
> To: 'NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users'
> Subject: Re: [nagdu] Impressions Please?
>
> Oh Cindy,
>
> I told people that we would handle the running free part. In this instance
> the dog was still in harness and my husband had walked her to the relieving
> area and should her where the bags and trash can and everything is located.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
> Of Cindy Ray
> Sent: Sunday, July 26, 2009 8:00 PM
> To: NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users
> Subject: Re: [nagdu] Impressions Please?
>
>
> Joy, yes, I agrfee with you as well. I believve that one of our
> responsibilities as a dog handler is to pick up after our dogs. There are
> people enough who don't even believe we can. I have had people express
> amazement at this. But it is our responsibility, specially when we are shown
>
> by one of the members of the household where bags and the like are. Not sure
>
> about the dogs running free though. How would you handle a b unch of dogs in
>
> your yard. How would people know whose? I mean, if dogs do this while
> running, who cleans up after them? Does it become a community effort?
>
> Cindy
>
>
>
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