[blparent] leaving family to get a dog guide

[Erin Rumer]

Please let us know what you decide on doing and I'd love to hear how it
goes.  I hope your training experience is wonderful and that your baby
handles it all very well.  Thankfully, that's a very flexible and easy-going
age overall.

Erin

-----Original Message-----
From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Jessica Pitzer
Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2012 7:55 PM
To: Blind Parents Mailing List
Subject: Re: [blparent] leaving family to get a dog guide

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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