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Guide Dog Etiquette

29 October 2023

Guide Dog Etiquette

“ Joop, Coco and I would like to thank you very much for your friendship and hospitality offered to us since we joined the benefice. Coco has very much enjoyed meeting you all after services. I thought it might be helpful just to mention that guide dog etiquette says, if a guide dog is in harness, in other words with a metal handle across her back and leading me, she is working and must not be disturbed. This means please don't tickle her ears or scratch her back or even say her name because she will take that as an invitation to socialise, something which she takes extremely seriously. When a guide dog or any working dog is in harness, it means that they need to concentrate, as much as they would like to say hello. 

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