[blparent] leaving family to get a dog guide

[Tammy]

Hi,

Fidelco trains all over The United States and Canada.

Tammy

-----Original Message----- 
From: Erin Rumer
Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2012 11:00 PM
To: 'Blind Parents Mailing List'
Subject: Re: [blparent] leaving family to get a dog guide

Yes, I am aware of Fidelco but without having done lots of research on the
school, it is my understanding that they only serve clients in their area on
the East Coast.  Please share if you have more info on this.  As far as a
Shepard goes, I've always absolutely loved the breed if they are bread and
trained well and hope to possibly have a shepherd___30 for my next guide.  I
think that what you're doing is smart with waiting a little for your next
guide since you have a baby at home and another guide in the mix.  Maybe
once your little one is past the torture toddler stage and at an age where
you can talk with them about the dog that might be the right time.  If I
knew I was going to get pregnant 8 months after getting my current guide, I
probably would have waited myself.  There are lots of things I love about
having the two right now, but there are also a lot of frustrations I could
have prevented had I waited.

Erin

-----Original Message-----
From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Bernadetta Pracon
Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2012 7:47 PM
To: blparent at nfbnet.org
Subject: Re: [blparent] leaving family to get a dog guide

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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