Pietenpol-List: Re: Pietenpol article---Smithsonian Air & Space Magazine
Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2014 10:25 am
Original Posted By: "giacummo"
Service dogs are one of the best ideas going, IMO. My mom's neighbor has aservice dog for many needs and it has changed her life. Never heard of adog drinking coffee (beer yes, but not coffee). I guess it makes him thatmuch more human! Does he fly with guys?--Jeffrey H. Boatright, PhD, FARVOAssociate Professor of OphthalmologyEmory University School of MedicineOn 3/13/14 9:42 AM, "William Wynne" wrote:>>Jeff,>>He is not quite that kind of a dog, he is much more likely to sit in your>lap and help you finish your coffee when your not looking. He is very>quiet at airshows, and most people never see him, but people who love>animals pick him up on their radar, and spend a few minutes petting him.>He is a stand in for companions left at home for a week. Many of these>people are not Corvair nor experimental builders, just flyers and dog>people.>>At Oshkosh 2013 a fantastically beautiful woman, reminiscent of Raquel>Welch in '100 rifles' came in the booth and asked to pet the dog. She was>dressed more for a day at the beach than one at a trade show. She sat in>a chair with him and held him against her chest for 20 or 30 minutes>while her husband was checking out turboprops at Dimetech. She rocked him>and sang him a soft song. A bunch of Corvair guys on the other side of>the tent had a hard time keeping mechanical trains of thought going. One>of them finally said "In my next life I am coming back as a small dog.">>A friend of ours from California questioned he is a real 'service dog'>and I showed him the paper work that originated with Grace's country>doctor in our small FL town, stating the dog was anxiety relief. He>scoffed, but I pointed out that the government in his home state of>California has spent 10 years prescribing regulating and distributing>marijuana to people for ailments like low self esteem. Our dog is a lot>less harmful than that.>>To see pictures of Brodhead 2013 and our booth and plane row last year,>get a look at this link:>>http://flycorvair.net/2013/08/12/brodhe ... yond-2013/ -ww.>>>Read this topic online here:>>http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.p ... ______This e-mail message (including any attachments) is for the sole use ofthe intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privilegedinformation. If the reader of this message is not the intendedrecipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distributionor copying of this message (including any attachments) is strictlyprohibited.If you have received this message in error, please contactthe sender by reply e-mail message and destroy all copies of theoriginal message (including attachments).________________________________________________________________________________Subject: Pietenpol-List: Re: Pietenpol article---Smithsonian Air & Space Magazinefrom 20
Service dogs are one of the best ideas going, IMO. My mom's neighbor has aservice dog for many needs and it has changed her life. Never heard of adog drinking coffee (beer yes, but not coffee). I guess it makes him thatmuch more human! Does he fly with guys?--Jeffrey H. Boatright, PhD, FARVOAssociate Professor of OphthalmologyEmory University School of MedicineOn 3/13/14 9:42 AM, "William Wynne" wrote:>>Jeff,>>He is not quite that kind of a dog, he is much more likely to sit in your>lap and help you finish your coffee when your not looking. He is very>quiet at airshows, and most people never see him, but people who love>animals pick him up on their radar, and spend a few minutes petting him.>He is a stand in for companions left at home for a week. Many of these>people are not Corvair nor experimental builders, just flyers and dog>people.>>At Oshkosh 2013 a fantastically beautiful woman, reminiscent of Raquel>Welch in '100 rifles' came in the booth and asked to pet the dog. She was>dressed more for a day at the beach than one at a trade show. She sat in>a chair with him and held him against her chest for 20 or 30 minutes>while her husband was checking out turboprops at Dimetech. She rocked him>and sang him a soft song. A bunch of Corvair guys on the other side of>the tent had a hard time keeping mechanical trains of thought going. One>of them finally said "In my next life I am coming back as a small dog.">>A friend of ours from California questioned he is a real 'service dog'>and I showed him the paper work that originated with Grace's country>doctor in our small FL town, stating the dog was anxiety relief. He>scoffed, but I pointed out that the government in his home state of>California has spent 10 years prescribing regulating and distributing>marijuana to people for ailments like low self esteem. Our dog is a lot>less harmful than that.>>To see pictures of Brodhead 2013 and our booth and plane row last year,>get a look at this link:>>http://flycorvair.net/2013/08/12/brodhe ... yond-2013/ -ww.>>>Read this topic online here:>>http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.p ... ______This e-mail message (including any attachments) is for the sole use ofthe intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privilegedinformation. If the reader of this message is not the intendedrecipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distributionor copying of this message (including any attachments) is strictlyprohibited.If you have received this message in error, please contactthe sender by reply e-mail message and destroy all copies of theoriginal message (including attachments).________________________________________________________________________________Subject: Pietenpol-List: Re: Pietenpol article---Smithsonian Air & Space Magazinefrom 20