Oh, the things you hear when you have a guide dog in training.

[Puppy-Raiser]

My goodness! I haven't even been in the puppy raising "business" (Couldn't think of any other word!) for a year, and I've already heard enough from the general public to write a book about. I've had people waving their hands in front of my face to see if I'm blind, (Once even when I was reading a book) people asking if my puppy (Eight weeks old at the time) was my "guide dog," and one person even thought that I was just dressing up my dog in cute clothes. (Talking about the yellow jacket that says GUIDE DOGS OF AMERICAUPPY IN TRAINING in BIG BOLD letters.) With the leashes that we are given from GDA, you can make them look sort of like it's a harness, and loop it over an older puppies head. I do that, and everyone IMMEDIATELY thinks that I am blind.

A friend of mine just had this conversation with a bag boy...

Bag boy: "A dog, where's a dog?"
Cashier: "This lady has one right there." (pointing at the ground)
Bag boy: (peeks around register) "Oh, it's a guide dog"
My friend: "in training"
Bag boy: "He isn't your guide dog?" (He looked really confused)
My friend: "No, he is in training to be a guide dog for the blind."
Bag boy: "Oh, I didn't know they needed to go through training."

Lol, I just thought I'd share all the funny things I hear.

And I didn't even realize how many people actually notice our puppies...I was shopping at the mall with a puppy raiser friend, and she had her puppy. I didn't have one at the time, (I was between pups) and I went to one place at the foodcourt, REALLY far away from my friend who was ordering her lunch somewhere else, and the people ahead of me in line were talking about the pup. They were saying, "Look! It's a guide dog! I think that lady's blind. Poor lady." Man, some people crack me up.:lol-sign:

 

[milos_mommy]

he didn't know they needed to go through training? what, he thought they just were born knowing not to cross the street if there's a car coming?

 

[ACooper]

he didn't know they needed to go through training? what, he thought they just were born knowing not to cross the street if there's a car coming?

Well ya...........they just know this stuff automatically Who do you think taught ME to look both ways before I cross? :lol-sign:

 

[oc_spirit]

It aint just Guide Dogs, the general public make all sorts of wierd remarks about dogs, especially if you have a rare breed. I went through a lot of them when I was at the UKC Premier this past weekend and helping out with my friends' Presas, Sars, Estrelas, Laikas and CO

 

[RD]

Oh I bet you get that all the time.

I've had people insist that Eve is my guide dog, even when I tell them she isn't. She's not even training to be one!

 

[Scooter]

The bag boy probably thought that because HE didn't have to do any training

 

[noludoru]

Well ya...........they just know this stuff automatically Who do you think taught ME to look both ways before I cross? :

:lol-sign:

Very amusing. I always notice puppies, though I've only run into a handful of guide dogs in my life. It's not that hard to tell someone isn't blind... yeesh. And "in training" ought to be obvious.

Can't wait to hear more, you really cracked me up!