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echo: doghouse
to: AUGUST ABOLINS
from: AVRAMA GINGOLD
date: 1998-04-04 00:36:00
subject: GUIDE DOG REFUSED ACCESS

AA> The doctor and restaurant owner should have said that they or their 
employe
AA> have allergies or sensitivity to dogs.   If the judge or city wouldn't 
acce
AA> that, then that would be unreasonable.  People with guide dogs probably 
hav
AA> variety of other business establishments they could choose from.  To 
single
AA> one business like that and then make a big deal about "guide dog
AA> insensitivities" is ridiculous.
AA>
August, I was the one who posted the message, not Anne.  I am not
a guide dog user, and do hold the unpopular opinion that law or no
law, the user should carry some sort of identification for the dog.
BUT...we are not talking about a guide dog going into someone's home,
or a small office, or any "other" business establishment.  We are
talking about an eye doctor, someone who presumably deals with eye
problems, and with many visually impaired clients so he Knows the
important functions a guidedog performs.
AA> .: /|ug
AA> 
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