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From: William.Wilson@p0.f89.n129.z1.fidonet.org (William Wilson)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: Re: guide dogs
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Date: 20 Sep 90 03:05:43 GMT
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[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]

 MJ> fit.  He said that his daught had gotten her dog from Seeing 
 MJ> Eye and they wouldn't think of giving a woman a male.  How 
 MJ> about that one.

Martha,
     Exactly the point I've been trying to make all along with this
thread!!!

     I just happen to know two ladies in Pittsburgh, and very much
ladies they are, who have male Seeing Eye dogs!
     Hasn't it dawned on all the people here that have been stating
Seeing Eye policy that not even those of us who got our companions from
Seeing Eye know of any official policy on such things as preferential
placement of employed people, gender preferences, etc.???

Note:  This wasn't really directed towards you Marti, cause I realize
you were only repeating something some ignoramus told you, but it
appears that some of the people here have decided that they know Seeing
Eye policy, even though they have absolutely no connection to the
organization other than what they have heard, and as you pointed out,
what one hears may have absolutely nothing to do with reality!
                                                Willie
 

... Like a bat out of Bellevue!

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