Bruce Toews

It was not right for any dog, guide, pet, service, whatever to eat off your plate. I have five dogs, one guide, and I never let them do that. Occasionally I'll slip my Lab a piece of food. Here's my school of thought. I'll eat. If I drop something, I might let you have it after I'm done. Don't beg when I make a tuna sandwich, I know you love lettuce. Again, you might get some, ok you probably will. Look for it in your food bowl, not from me. As for the set routines, that's sort of true and sort of not. You can make a dog sleep till one in the afternoon if you want before you feed them. You say guide dogs control the owner, I think it's more a fifty fifty team. I don't want my dog going to the next Metallica concert obviously, but I also can't bring her with me where i'm going because the friend swears she's allergic to dogs. She isn't, but there are some things you just don't fight with her. As for stepping in that steaming pile, I've done that, it's irresponsibility of the public in general but moreso guide dog owners who feel oh well the sighted peeps will pick up my dog's poop, I'm above that. If it's soft, unable to be picked up by you that's one thing. Obvious snobishness, is completely unacceptable. if it were me I would've corrected that guide dog for eating so hard it might've had a broken blood vessil. Ok not that hard but. This is why my view of the blind is generally shit. Just so you know, my user name is choco lab as in chocolate Lab, I know it sounds like choke a Lab.