Man's best friend not loved by everyone
As published in The Malay Mail today. It appears that a blind person with a guide dog cannot use public transportation. Worse, in an exercise by Malay Mail to test public response to man and guide dog, Stevens Chan and Lashawn — Malaysia's first and only guide dog — were chased out of a mall. We relate the experiences of our reporters and visually impaired Chan. Being visually impaired and going for a walk in the mall isn’t exactly the easiest thing to do. However, with guide dog Lashawn leading his master Stevens Chan, navigation becomes much less of a problem. I (KC Tan) was assigned to observe my blindfolded colleague Calvin Khong who was led around at an apartment complex in a Malay Mail exercise to promote Chan's Dogs for Sight campaign. As Malaysia’s only guide dog for the blind, the sight of Lashawn leading his master is not the most common thing one experiences. However, residents of the Desa Saujana apartment in Seri Kembangan have taken notice of ...