[nagdu] Article: Scared Publix customer sprays seeing-eye dog

Thu May 23 20:43:13 UTC 2013

Well, in this society, folks seem to look for any excuse for violent 
behavior and blame it on anything or anyone but themselves! I walked up to 
our party store one day and Holly snuck a sniff of a gentleman in line ahead 
of me. He whirled around and yelled at me! He said he thaught Holly was a 
pit bull! How he would come to that conclussion without even looking at her 
or for that matter, that the dog was even bad, I surely don't know! I 
corrected her and he continued to mutter about pit bulls. Well, I guess pits 
look like labradoodles? I think not! The point is that folks tend to act 
first and then think later. If they manage to get in trouble they think of 
any excuse to get out of it and put the blame elsewhere. They hire lawyers 
to help spread the blame around instead of admitting they might have made a 
mistake!
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Star Gazer" <pickrellrebecca at gmail.com>
To: "'NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users'" 
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Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2013 4:02 PM
Subject: Re: [nagdu] Article: Scared Publix customer sprays seeing-eye dog


> What does her mental illness have to do with anything? She behaved
> aggressively without provocation it sounds like. Did she mean to spray
> bleach or did she grab a bottle of something that she thought was 
> harmless?
> This is a weird story.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagdu [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of blind411
> Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2013 3:23 PM
> To: 'NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users'
> Subject: Re: [nagdu] Article: Scared Publix customer sprays seeing-eye dog
>
> Here is my take on this. Every individual has the right to travel freely 
> in
> their community and feel safe in doing so. We also have the right to feel
> our personal property is safe and no one has the right to deprive us of 
> our
> property nor damage that property without just cause. This is true no 
> matter
> what the excuse from another person. Just because a person has a mental
> illness, it does not entitle them to harm us or our property.
>
> Fraternally yours,
> Marion Gwizdala
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagdu [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Marsha Drenth
> Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2013 1:57 PM
> To: NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users
> Subject: Re: [nagdu] Article: Scared Publix customer sprays seeing-eye dog
>
> All,
> this is another one of those cases where it should be decided who should 
> be
> accommendated. Just like Marion posted about a week or so ago, a person 
> who
> has an allergy to dogs, has to figure it out themselves, its their
> responsibility. Is a blind persons needs more important than a persons 
> with
> a mental health issue? or is it the other way around? Its a very sad case.
> What the store clerk did was horrible, what her punishment should be I am
> not sure. But if she had any assistance in being placed in that job, whom
> ever was helping her should have gotten that information that she was 
> afraid
> of dogs, before placing her in a potential location that would have 
> service
> animals involved. I mean it could have been a a person who is physically
> impaired come in with a service animal, the clerk could have done the same
> thing. The clerk was afraid of dogs, it doesn't matter about the who has 
> the
> dog, its a dog, no matter what disability. Mental health is now considered 
> a
> disability. I am not sure  there is a right or wrong in this case.
>
> Marsha drenth
> Sent with my IPhone
>
> On May 23, 2013, at 11:12 AM, "Criminal Justice Major Extraordinaire"
> <orleans24 at comcast.net> wrote:
>
>> I hope this owman that did this ends up serving time in jail and has
>> to
> pay the $5000.00 fine.
>> Wht this customer service representative di was unbelievable.
>> I don't care if she has a mental illness, but what she did to the
>> guide
> dog is very unexceptable and unexcusable!!!
>> This makes me very angry and mad!!!
>> *Disgusted and upset*
>> I do hope that the guide dog has not suffered any trauma from this
> incident.
>> Bibi and son Odie
>> Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2013 8:09 PM
>> Subject: Article: Scared Publix customer sprays seeing-eye dog Scared
>> Publix customer sprays seeing-eye dog with bleach Sunrise resident
>> cited for animal cruelty A seeing-eye dog had bleach squirted in its
>> eyes at a Publix grocery store when a 67-year-old woman intentionally
>> sprayed the animal in an unprovoked attack, a police report says.
>> The 5-year-old yellow Labrador retriever appeared uninjured, the
>> report said, but Patricia Lawler, of Sunrise, was cited for animal
>> cruelty and given a notice to appear after the 4:15 p.m. Saturday
>> incident
> at the store at 10155 W. Oakland Park Blvd.
>>
>>
>>
>> Lawler told police she "thought it was a vicious animal" and feared it
>> would be a danger to other customers, so she grabbed a spray bottle of
>> Clorox cleaner off a shelf and sprayed the animal in the eyes and back.
>> "I realize now it was a mistake," Lawler said when reached by
>> telephone Monday. "I have a fear of dogs. It was just a big dog with a
>> big
> head. I was just afraid."
>> Lawler said she takes medication for schizoaffective disorder, and
>> paranoia is one the symptoms associated with her mental illness.
>> The dog's owner, Ronda Carin Shore, 45, also of Sunrise, told police
>> she is blind and keeps the canine with her at all times. It was
>> wearing a service-dog vest, an assist handle and a placard, the report
>> said.
>> Shore declined to comment Monday.
>> Although the dog wasn't exhibiting aggressive behavior, Lawler said
>> she got scared when she saw it and asked Shore to leave the store with
>> the dog. When that didn't produce results, she said she resorted to
>> the
> spray bleach to get rid of the animal.
>> "I was afraid the dog would go wild, or some small child would get
>> bitten, or somebody would get hurt," Lawler said. "I guess I
>> overreacted. But I still feel like a dog doesn't belong in a place
>> like a
> grocery store."
>> If convicted of the first-degree misdemeanor, Lawler faces up to a
>> year in jail and/or a $5,000 fine.
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