[nagdu] UK: Heartbreak' as bitten Newport guide dog must go

Fri Apr 29 20:48:10 UTC 2011

Marsha,

Oh, I am so with you there.  In my ongoing struggle to acquire the resources
I need to buy the tools I need now that I am blind because all those years
of tax dollars I paid and the hidden taxes I'm still paying sure aren't
doing the trick, I've found an awful about just how harmful and how
widespread those attitudes are throughout the various levels of resource
providers who are the most avid promulgators.  Yet these are the first to
look people in the eye and say with all seriousness that they just want to
help the blind by making them feel better about themselves.  What's really
scary to me is how many people believe that, and how many of those are the
blind people who are being deprived of those resources.  

Doing whatever we can do to break that self-reinforcing myth is the only way
to break it.

Tami Smith-Kinney

-----Original Message-----
From: nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
Of Marsha Drenth
Sent: Friday, April 29, 2011 6:57 AM
To: 'NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users'
Subject: Re: [nagdu] UK: Heartbreak' as bitten Newport guide dog must go

All,

I was by no means saying his actions or what he does not feel comfortable is
wrong. What I dislike are the misconceptions that the public will have after
a story like this. People reading that story now think, oh that poor blind
man. And just like I said there are "some" schools, who play into that
thinking, of poor blind people. 

We all have differing abilities, I am by no means judging him for it. I hate
the slant the reporter put on this story. 

One more reason we have to fight so hard, to break those misconceptions. 

Marsha

-----Original Message-----
From: nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
Of Tracy Carcione
Sent: Friday, April 29, 2011 8:49 AM
To: NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users
Subject: Re: [nagdu] UK: Heartbreak' as bitten Newport guide dog must go

This is an older gentleman.  He may well have become blind when cane
skills were not really taught, or taught with a short cane.  Or, I don't
know about in the UK, but in the US, many older people have trouble
getting any kind of blind guy training, including cane skills.  Or, the
ever-present possibility, the journalist is playing up the poor blind guy
angle.
When I'm between dogs, I *hate* going into New York with my cane.  I can,
but I sure don't like it.  If I said as much to a reporter, wanna bet he'd
turn "don't like" into "can't"? And GDBA seems to play the poor blind guy
card way more than any school here could get away with, IMO.
And Lisa, while I appreciate your sentiments, the UK is not a third-world
country!
Tracy

> Your completely correct, oh the poor blind man, who can't navigate with
> out
> his dog. This is the same ploy that most of the guide dog schools play
> into,
> if you get this wonderful amazing dog, you will be this super blindie, and
> be able to go any where and do anything. LOL I am sure he needs his pup,
> jus
> like all of us think we need our pups. And yes it might be true that he
> may
> not have good cane travel skills. But again this is something the school
> should have made sure BEFORE giving him a dog.
>
> Just my two cents!
> Marsha
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
> Of Brittney N. Mejico
> Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2011 7:47 PM
> To: NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users
> Subject: Re: [nagdu] UK: Heartbreak' as bitten Newport guide dog must go
>
> I don't know what to say I like the fact that Mr. GRANVILLE Vaughan  is
> trying to do something about loose dogs and that's sad his dog had to
> retire. I have one issue him saying
> "I try to get out with my cane but it's not so easy. I've hardly
> been out recently. I feel like a prisoner here."  Makes us blind people
> look
>
> helpless without them smart dogs to lead us.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ginger Kutsch
> Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2011 6:39 AM
> To: NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users
> Subject: [nagdu] UK: Heartbreak' as bitten Newport guide dog must go
>
> Heartbreak' as bitten Newport guide dog must go
> Wednesday 27th April 2011
> South Wales Argus, UK
>
> GRANVILLE Vaughan and guide dog Nadia have been inseparable for
> five years - but he must now give her up after she was attacked
> by a loose dog.
>
> Now 66-year-old Mr Vaughan, from Somerton Park, Newport, is
> calling for people not to let dogs run loose on the streets, and
> for laws on dog ownership and control to be tightened.
>
> Nadia, a black labrador, was bitten by a Jack Russell terrier on
> Cromwell Road, several weeks ago, and has since become wary of
> other dogs, unable to focus on the vital job of helping Mr
> Vaughan get around.
>
> She has now been retired by the Guide Dogs Association and Mr
> Vaughan must wait to get another dog, a process that can take
> several months.
>
> "It broke my heart when they took her harness away, but she won't
> work on it anymore. She's spinning around looking for other dogs,
> and could knock me over,"
>
> said Mr Vaughan, who is completely blind due to an hereditary eye
> disorder.
>
> "She was seven earlier this month and had a couple of years left
> before retiring. I've had her five-and-a-half years, and she was
> my eyes.
>
> "I try to get out with my cane but it's not so easy. I've hardly
> been out recently. I feel like a prisoner here."
>
> Nadia will be re-homed in Newport, with someone who takes her in
> when Mr Vaughan is ill.
>
> "This is a waste, a real shame, and it shouldn't have happened.
> People don't realise what can happen, letting dogs run loose.
> It's irresponsible and something should be done," he said.
>
> Source: http://www.southwalesargus.co.uk
> <http://www.southwalesargus.co.uk/>
>
>
>
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