[nagdu] Puppies behind bars

[Tamara Smith-Kinney]

Tracy,

Now, that is a great idea!  How great that somebody thought of that.

Tami Smith-Kinney

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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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