[Publib] re: Pets in Libraries

[Lise Chlebanowski]

This is true!!!


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Sent: Thu 4/2/2009 3:36 PM
To: Sharon Foster
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Subject: Re: [Publib] re: Pets in Libraries
 
This is not surprising.  I have never had a dog who didn't have the knack for sitting/laying/lurking in EXACTLY the position most likely to trip me.  Especially when I'm cooking:)


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	To: Kathleen McCorkle <sedanlib at terraworld.net>
	From: Sharon Foster <fostersm1 at gmail.com>
	Sent by: publib-bounces at webjunction.org
	Date: 04/02/2009 03:29PM
	cc: PubLib <publib at webjunction.org>
	Subject: Re: [Publib] re: Pets in Libraries
	
	Have You Tripped Over Your Dog? - Well Blog - NYTimes.com
	Mar 27, 2009 ... A new study shows that more than 86000 people a year
	end up in the emergency room because they tripped over the family pet.
	...
	well.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/27/have-you-tripped-over-your-dog/?em
	
	
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	On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 6:24 PM, Kathleen McCorkle
	<sedanlib at terraworld.net> wrote:
	> 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.
	>
	>
	>
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