[Publib] re: Pets in Libraries

[Kathleen McCorkle]

To be fair there is always the danger of tripping over a small child at 
times also:-)

Kathleen

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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