[guide.chat] Forwarded Email: Guide Dog Stories.


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From: M BOWKER - 
 Address: bowker288@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent On: 02/03/2009 15:15
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Subject: Guide Dog Stories.

Hi All,
In 1985 I joined the Appeals Committee in Manchester to help raise money for 
the Guide dogs. We went to all kinds of events, pubs, schools to give talks. 
One of the best places was outside Marks and Spencer's. Put us outside there 
with six dogs and we were shore of about five thousand pounds per day.

I would position myself at the main entrance and shake my tin and the money 
came rolling in. But the storey  is about Edwin, my first guide dog. He was a 
lab/retriever cross and weighed 75 pounds. When he stood or sat down his head 
was about  the right level with kiddies in push chairs. He could lick an ice 
cream top without anyone noticing till it was to late. He would sit there 
looking all inercent. What gave him away was the ice cream left round his lips. 
He also had a bad habit of collecting teddy bears out of push chairs as they 
went passed. I would find this out when some one would ask me why I had two or 
three teddy bears round my feet. Also he had a bad habit of going into a shop 
and while I was getting served he would get mars bars or kit kats of the low 
trays in front of the counter. The naughty dog always got two of each. One for 
him and one for me. These dogs are so cleaver they can do things without you 
knowing.

Malcolm from Hyde. Cheshire. England.
Skype name. malcolmbo1

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