I applaud the Washington Metro’s film Metro Madness: Riding the Metro through a Service Dog’s Perspective – a 3.5 minute film narrated by a service dog riding the Metro.
I particularly enjoy the closing scene where a courteous and enlightened traveler steps aside to let the visually impaired Barbara walk through a fare gate, making the universal “you go ahead” gesture. Which she can’t see. Because she’s blind.
(Okay, she’s not completely blind. As the film points out at the opening, “Many people don’t know that you don’t need to be completely blind to use a leader dog.”)
29. July 2008 at 22:39
Well….. maybe the dog has been trained to understand what that gesture means.
30. July 2008 at 07:22
Presumably. But it still looks out of place at the end of a video designed to get people to pay attention to the needs of the visually impaired.
30. July 2008 at 18:55
Wait a minute, “…narrated by a service dog….”. The dog can talk and “leader dog” is the best job he can get?
30. July 2008 at 20:44
Hollywood is a pretty tough industry to get into. Sure he is in only small service movies now, but a talking dog, he’ll make millions in kid movies one day.
1. August 2008 at 20:29
arf arf