Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!yale!bunker!hcap!hnews!129!90!Gary.Petraccaro From: Gary.Petraccaro@f90.n129.z1.fidonet.org (Gary Petraccaro) Newsgroups: misc.handicap Subject: dogs Message-ID: <14766@bunker.UUCP> Date: 4 Oct 90 19:08:47 GMT Sender: wtm@bunker.UUCP Reply-To: Gary.Petraccaro@f90.n129.z1.fidonet.org Distribution: misc Organization: FidoNet node 1:129/90 - Post Road Inn, Greensburg PA Lines: 33 Approved: wtm@bunker.UUCP Index Number: 10928 [This is from the Blink Talk Conference] -> In a message to Henry Kasten <09-30-90 14:04> Al Hoffman wrote: -> -> AH> 1. What can you do with a dog that I can't with ease and -> AH> speed with my cane. I am not unimaginative. I won't even -> AH> mention the things that limit a dog, but is the limit on a -> AH> cane--thats the limit of the user, as you will no doubt say -> AH> holds for the dog as well. Al, Sorry to say this, but with your attitude, don't get a dog. Listen, that's not a slam. You seriously don't seem to be interested in the "dog" part of this whole enterprise. That's basic to being successful. Anything you can do with a cane you can do with a dog, pure and simple. No companionship with the cane, but you won't have to take it for walks, or take it to the vet either. You won't have to put it to sleep either, nor will you ever have to face retiring it and adapting yourself to a new model. Probably one of the wiser types in this echo will be able to provide you with a meaningful perspective. All I can say, however, is that I never heard a dog user ask themselves the same questions you have asked. I've never heard a dog user go through the effort of justifying his/her use of a dog. Not once. Yeah, I'm sure it has happened somewhere, maybe even here and I missed it. Dog people don't seem to look back and wonder as much as cane people do, though. Don't know why that happens to be the case. -- Uucp: ..!{decvax,oliveb}!bunker!hcap!hnews!129!90!Gary.Petraccaro Internet: Gary.Petraccaro@f90.n129.z1.fidonet.org