[nagdu] Puppies behind bars

[Lora]

Tamara
Yes Trice did get exposure on weekends.

On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 10:22 AM, Tamara Smith-Kinney <
tamara.8024 at comcast.net> wrote:

> Tracy,
>
> Now, that is a great idea!  How great that somebody thought of that.
>
> Tami Smith-Kinney
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
> Of Tracy Carcione
> Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2009 5:25 AM
> To: NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users
> 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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Lora and Trice