[nagdu] commands

[Tami Kinney]

Yikes! As long as everybody ended up with a good laugh, that's the 
important thing. You gotta admit, that one really is funny, even though 
the underlying tensions are not. Still, everybody laughed, and that is 
never bad. /grin/

On 11/05/2011 10:51 AM, Lyn Gwizdak wrote:
> I was in a store once and I said "Good Boy" to my dog. A black man was
> nearby and he said in a wounded kind of voice, "I'm not a boy." I said
> to him that I thought he sounded a bit old to be a boy. WE had a chuckle
> over that. Glad it worked out that way - some black person could have
> thought I was being racist and calling him a boy in the manner the
> racists used to refer to black men that way. Who knows what he was
> thinking when he thought I was calling him a boy to be racist. Maybe my
> response told him that I wasn't racist at all. I would have said the
> same thiong to a white guy.
>
> How funny that people think we are talking to them when I thought it was
> quite clear that we are talking to the dog - who talks that way to
> strange people on the street anyway! LOL!
>
> Lyn and Landon
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marsha Drenth"
> <marsha.drenth at gmail.com>
> To: "'NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users'"
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> Sent: Saturday, November 05, 2011 7:58 AM
> Subject: [nagdu] commands
>
>
>> Hi List,
>>
>>
>>
>> There was something mentioned on another list that sparked a very
>> interesting subject for me. Here is a situation for example. I am at
>> school,
>> or out in the city or just traveling. Emma is sniffing something, and
>> I tell
>> her to leave it, not in a loud voice but in a firm voice. I try to
>> tell her
>> in a voice that she can only hear and that will not draw attention to me.
>> But to my surprise there is someone around. And they think I am
>> speaking to
>> them, to leave me and my dog alone. I am not speaking to them, but they
>> become offended. Then I have to apologize.
>>
>>
>>
>> Does anyone else have this happen? Or am I the only one?
>>
>>
>>
>> Emma comes from the Seeing Eye, I use commands like: Leave it, Hop up,
>> Fouie, Right, left, inside and outside are just some of the commands I
>> use.
>>
>>
>>
>> If the above situation happens to you? How do you handle this? And if it
>> does not how do you give your pup commands?
>>
>>
>>
>> I think the next dog I receive I will be teaching and then using
>> commands in
>> another language. My reasons for this, that if I tell my dog a command, I
>> also do not want others to know what I am telling her to do. As some
>> of the
>> sighted people around me have said, "No, no don't correct your dog,
>> she is
>> being good." Or "no, no you need to go here or there, you should go to
>> the
>> elevator."
>>
>>
>>
>> Interesting topic for discussion,
>>
>> Marsha
>>
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