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- From: mfriley@pacman.WPI.EDU (Margaret F Riley)
- Newsgroups: soc.culture.british
- Subject: Re: guide dogs
- Message-ID: <1k3su0INN9th@bigboote.WPI.EDU>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 17:38:08 GMT
- References: <1993Jan22.102918.27971@nuscc.nus.sg> <1993Jan26.112057.28412@adobe.com>
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- In article <1993Jan26.112057.28412@adobe.com> cjackson@adobe.com (Curtis Jackson) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan22.102918.27971@nuscc.nus.sg> hiscrp@nuscc.nus.sg (C R Pennell) writes:
- >}For obvious reasons this is directed at British readers.
- >
- >Perhaps these reasons are obvious only to British readers.
- >Could you explain? The U.S. has far superior guide dog
- >breeding, training, and placement organisations both in terms
- >of quality and quantity.
- >--
- >Curtis Jackson '91 Black Lab/Blue Heeler "Studley Doright"
- >cjackson@mv.us.adobe.com '92 Collie/Golden "George"
- >DoD #721 KotB '91 Hawk GT '81 Maxim 650
- >"I'd rather die while I'm living than live while I'm dead." -- J. Buffett
-
- I can't remember all of the details, but it seemed to me that the
- person in need was going to be in England when he/she needed the
- guide dog. There is a 6 month quarantine for animals entering the
- country (or is it the entire UK?), so a guide dog from the US would
- be tied up in a kennel for 6 months while the person tried to
- find other means of assistance.
-
- Margaret
-