[nagdu] Bus seating

Mon Apr 5 12:55:06 UTC 2010

Depends, how much has the dog had to drink? Then again, no matter how
much you or your pup has had, you're never too drunk to fall off the
floor.

-----Original Message-----
From: nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Julie J
Sent: Friday, April 02, 2010 9:56 PM
To: NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users
Subject: Re: [nagdu] Bus seating

Uhhh...no, it's pretty hard to fall off the floor.

Julie

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Albert J Rizzi" <albert at myblindspot.org>
To: "'NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users'" 
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Sent: Friday, April 02, 2010 3:13 PM
Subject: Re: [nagdu] Bus seating

> Wouldn't that be true where ever the dog was on the bus if in fact
there 
> was
> an accident? To say nothing of pretty  Jules, as I am sure she is not
> buckled in either.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf
> Of Julie J
> Sent: Friday, April 02, 2010 3:06 PM
> To: NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users
> Subject: Re: [nagdu] Bus seating
>
> Jewel,
>
> Setting aside the allowed part of this, I wouldn't put a guide dog on
a 
> bus
> seat for the simple reason that it isn't safe.  If the bus stops
suddenly 
> or
>
> goes over a large pothole or something the dog could easily lose
balance 
> and
>
> fall off the seat.
>
> JMHO
> Julie
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Jewel S." <herekittykat2 at gmail.com>
> To: "NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users"
> <nagdu at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Friday, April 02, 2010 1:22 PM
> Subject: Re: [nagdu] Bus seating
>
>
>>I know Albert mentioned this as a joke, but I wanted to tell everyone
>> that you *can* offer your guide dog a seat. I spoke to several bus
>> drivers, and all of them said that as long as the bus was not overly
>> full and the dog behaved (which all guide dogs should!), they had no
>> problem with a guide dog sitting in a seat on the buses that don't
>> have room under the seat. I just thought I'd let people know that if
>> you ask, it may be allowed, and is therefore an option for people
>> whose buses don't have the underneath room for a poor squished guide
>> dog.
>>
>> ~Jewel
>>
>> On 4/1/10, AnnaLisa Anderson <annalisa at sector14.net> wrote:
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> The buses around here don't have anywhere for your dog to go in the 
>>> front
>
>>> or
>>> the back where the sideways facing seats are.  Therefore I very
rarely
>>> sit
>>> up front, unless either I'm only going a very short distance, or if
the
>>> bus
>>> is super crowded.  Sometimes I will sit in the sideways seats in the
>>> back,
>>> not so worried about Sunny getting stepped on back there, but it
still
>>> happens.  I much prefer the normal forward facing seats, and I
usually
>>> try
>>> to go 3 or 4 back on the right, so there is no wheelchair brace or
>>> diagonal
>>> bar in the way.  And on the right so I can just have Sunny turn
slightly
>>> and
>>> back herself in.  She has gotten to be extremely good at backing in
and
>>> plopping herself down in the floor at the same time I am sitting
down.
>>> Then
>>> I put a leg on either side of her so she doesn't slide around, and
we're
>>> set.
>>>
>>> AnnaLisa and Sundance
>>>
>>>
>>>
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