[Cagdu] FW: [nagdu] PETA opposes the use of guide dogs

[tina thomas]

This article makes me so angry. People need to get their facts straight. 
Tina 

Subject: [nagdu] PETA opposes the use of guide dogs

>From an interview with Daphna Nachminovitch, Vice-President of Cruelty
Investigations for PETA, in the Los Angeles Times blog L.A. Unleashed
(posted 1/10/09):

[NACHMINOVITCH:] There will never be a perfect world, but in the world we're
in now, we support some working dog situations and decry others. 
Hearing dog programs that pull dogs from animal shelters and ensure that
they are in safe and loving homes have our stamp of approval; they live with
the family for their entire life, they learn interesting things, enjoy life,
and love helping. On the other hand, we oppose most seeing-eye-dog programs
because the dogs are bred as if there are no equally intelligent dogs
literally dying for homes in shelters, they are kept in harnesses almost
24/7, people are prohibited from petting or playing with them and they
cannot romp and run and interact with other dogs; and their lives are
repeatedly disrupted (they are trained for months in one home and bond, then
sent to a second, and after years of bonding with the person they have
"served," they are whisked away again because they are old and no longer
"useful"). We have a member who is blind who actually moved states to avoid
"returning" her beloved dog. We feel that the human community should do more
to support blind people, and give dogs a break. A deaf person can see if a
dog has a medical issue such as blood in her urine, a blind person living
alone cannot, and so on.

Read the whole article (with the option to leave a comment) here:

<href="
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/unleashed/2009/01/when-we-first-r.html> 

You can e-mail Daphna Nachminovitch at
DaphnaN at peta.org
, or call her at
757-622-7382, extension 1338.

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