[nagdu] Puppies behind bars

Margo and Arrow margo.downey at verizon.net
Thu Aug 13 15:08:15 UTC 2009


Our dogs can do so much more than we sometimes realize.  Very interesting.

Margo and Arrow
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tracy Carcione" <carcione at access.net>
To: "NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users" 
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Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2009 8:25 AM
Subject: Re: [nagdu] Puppies behind bars


> After listening to the show, I deduce that the program at least started in
> New York, since they have trained dogs for Guiding Eyes.  The puppies
> spend the week with the inmates, then go out for the weekends to get a
> taste of life in the outside world.
>
> Much of the show was about a new program to give service dogs to wounded
> veterans.  One of the guests has post-traumatic stress, and explained how
> his dog helps with that.  He said he is hyper-alert, always looking for
> snipers and potential bombs, instead of seeing a harmless supermarket or
> mall.  So, if he's in a store, coming up to a corner in the aisle, he
> tells his dog to "pop the corner", and she goes ahead and looks around the
> corner, then signals him if someone is there.  That way, he's not startled
> by coming upon someone unexpectedly.  The same when he's standing in the
> line for the cashier--the dog watches behind him, and if someone is coming
> up behind him, she puts herself between her person and the other person,
> so he knows the other person is there, and so he still has the space he
> needs.  They also said that some people have PTSD so bad they sometimes go
> catatonic, just curl up and stop responding.  Their dogs are trained to
> use a big phone to call 911 if that happens.  It was very interesting.
> Tracy
>
>
>> Lora,
>>
>> Your Trice is the first working guide I've "met" from that program.  I 
>> can
>> see the reasons it's a good idea in some respects but have really 
>> wondered
>> how it works in reality, since a guide dog needs to be exposed -- or so
>> traidition has it -- to everything imaginable.
>>
>> I am really interested to see how your new guy does as you go on in the
>> wide, wide world.  I'm glad you have such a good guy after all your
>> troubles
>> with her former dog!. /smile/
>>
>> Tami Smith-Kinney
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On 
>> Behalf
>> Of Lora
>> Sent: Wednesday, August 12, 2009 1:45 PM
>> To: NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users
>> Subject: Re: [nagdu] Puppies behind bars
>>
>> My dog was raised in a Prison, but was raised in Ohio.
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 1:48 PM, Tracy Carcione <carcione at access.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Today's Fresh Air program on NPR is about Puppies Behind Bars, prisoners
>>> raising service dogs.  The particular program is in Bedford Hills, which
>>> I
>>> think is in Michigan, so maybe they raised Lora's Tryce.
>>> Fresh Air is availlable as a podcast, probably from npr.org, as well as
>>> on
>>> the radio.
>>> Tracy
>>>
>>>
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