What They’re Saying
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It’s funny how often the sight of a guide dog turns whatever subject people are discussing onto dogs. Some random things I overheard people saying today regarding a certain GSD include, but are not limited to the following:
- “Look how she sits straight up like that . . . so elegant!”
- “How demure!”
- “She’s got sweet eyes . . . such a kind face. . . .”
- “She looks so friendly, like, she wants to just play with everyone!”
- “What a regal looking German shepherd!”
- “Wow, I just love her markings!”
- “Oh . . . my . . . god! She is just gorgeous!”
Sadly, I also got quite a bit of the normal she’s “too skinny” or “so big” or “really small” or has “HUGE ears” or “strange coloring” as well as the inevitable “is that a guide/service/seeing-eye/blind dog” and “what kind of breed/color dog is that.”
However, more upsetting and yet the most memorable thing said about my dear Yara was, “Oh, my god, oh my god, OH MY GOD! [insert ear-piercing shriek here] I’m so scared of dogs!” Honestly, I wouldn’t have been bothered if the person having a panic attack in front of me had done either of two things (a.) moved out of the handicapped/elderly seats on the bus that she had rested her not-more-than-twenty-year-old hiney in or (b.) not been SCREAMING ALL THIS AT THE TOP OF HER LUNGS REPEATEDLY for my entire bus ride home. I get it, people are scared of dogs. I totally understand how being scared of things makes you a bit irrational and all that. But seriously, if you’re more than 10, you can gather yourself up enough to not make my life thoroughly unenjoyable. Especially when the object of your neurosis is laying quietly under my chair with a good four feet separating you from impending doom.
In other unrelated news, in the last four days I’ve met four guide dog users I’ve never known of here in Albany. Not that I know every guide dog user in the Capital District, but it’s pretty monumental to bump into so many new people on the same bus route several days in a row. Even more interesting, all of them were black labs from The Seeing Eye.
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Cyndy on
Tue, 15th Jul 2008 5:47 am
Testing. . . .
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