[blparent] leaving family to get a dog guide

[Jessica Pitzer]

I'm very interested in this subject as i'm applying for a successor
dog righ tnow, and my son is 8 months old. I'll  be going for 2 weeks,
when the time comes, and the school of my choosing seems to be of the
mind you figure it out as far as the kids go.
Right now, my thoughts are eithe rot have my mom and partner watch him
together depending on when I go, becuase my mom is between jobs, and
if she's working to ahve the fiancee watch during the day and my mom
helpin in the evenings and at night. My other option which i'm
checking into is having my mom fly up with me, and back and paying for
her a hotel so that I can see them both while i'm in the 2 week
training. its really only 11 days I'll be there, 13 with the travel
days, but I don't wanna be away that long, so we'll see what happens.
Jessica

On 6/6/12, Bernadetta Pracon <bernadetta_pracon at samobile.net> wrote:
> erin, there already is such a school. Fidelco does only in-home
> training. There's another one called freedom guides or something to
> that effect; They also only do in-home training. The only thing about
> Fidelco is that they only train shepherds. I personally love shepherds
> and I hope my next guide will be a shepherd, but I know many people
> don't want one of those for one reason or another.
> I am also thinking of getting another guide dog at some point, though I
> don't know when. My first guide retired during the time I was pregnant.
> I always imagined I'd never again be without a guide, but circumstances
> made it so that I couldn't get a replacement right away, for obvious
> reasons. And though I miss working with a dog very much, to the point
> where I  feel awkward with a cane now, I can't get a dog anytime in the
> near future. My partner and I decided that having a new dog alongside a
> new baby would probably be impracticle and most likely too chaotic for
> us to handle. Not to mention, he also has a seeing eye dog, which
> further detracts me from the idea of getting my own. Two dogs and a
> baby seems like something I don't necessarily want to deal with at the
> moment. And that's too bad because I long to have my own guide again.
> Bernadetta
>
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