[Publib] re: Pets in Libraries

[Kathleen McCorkle]

I have a friend who broke an ankle when he tripped over one of his wife's 
small dogs and upon getting home after surgery and a hospital stay he saw 
she had gotten another little dog asked her" are you trying to kill me?"

That is all we would need is for someone to put their dog down for "just a 
second" and have someone with a walker or just anyone turn around and trip 
over a pet.

Kathleen at Sedan
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Knieriem, Lesley" <lknieriem at rogersark.org>
To: <publib at webjunction.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2009 11:24 AM
Subject: RE: [Publib] re: Pets in Libraries


Not to be utterly humorless, but I wish that people wouldn't use
"allergic" in this sense, any more than "addicted" in the sense of "I'm
addicted to my Thursday-night television line-up."

People who have pet allergies are not animal-hating curmudgeons who just
can't appreciate other people's cute widdle pets.  My husband could
quite literally die if exposed to excessive cat dander without his
medications.

And dog bites aren't particularly funny, either;  I don't get a big
chuckle out of my scars.

Grumpily yours,

Lesley Knieriem
Rogers Public Library
Rogers AR

-----Original Message-----
From: Avery Hicks [mailto:ahicks at wrl.org]
Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2009 8:20 AM
To: Lise Chlebanowski
Cc: publib at webjunction.org
Subject: RE: [Publib] re: Pets in Libraries

I have no problems with dogs or cats, but I do believe I'm highly
allergic to screaming babies and toddlers. They give me quite a
headache for some reason.