[nagdu] practice dogs

[KAYE KIPP]

When I got Marjorie, GDB didn't work with practice dogs, I don't thing. 
Maybe they did with the first-timers.  I don't know.

I did go to TSE once and they gave us dogs to interact with before we got 
our gods, but we didn't actually work with them.

Kaye
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tracy Carcione" <carcione at access.net>
To: "NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users" 
<nagdu at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Thursday, December 03, 2009 5:14 AM
Subject: [nagdu] practice dogs


> Hi Angie.
> Yeah, I'd like to have known our practice dogs' names, too.  I gues some
> TSE trainers do tell, but ours was really in to that TSE confidentiality
> thing.  Seems very peculiar with practice dogs, but whatever.
>
> One of my classmates, but in another group, I think met a practice dog she
> thought was wonderful, and she got him!  But it turned out he was a
> madman, totally wild.  She had to have a dog change most of the way
> through class.  He just wasn't working out.
>
> I do know the name of the giant shepherd I had as a practice dog, because
> I'd met him before.  He was staying in the house, because the kennel was
> just too stressful for his sensitive shepherd self.  I still wonder if he
> went out as a guide.  His name is Gunther. Nice dog!  But way too big for
> me.
> Tracy
>
>> Hey Tracy,
>>
>> GDB was using practice dogs when I got  Glazie in 2001. I remember this
>> one
>> really cute yellow Lab named Liz. I kind of hoped I'd get that dog--she
>> was
>> alert and inquisitive but obedient. Of course I got my Glaze, who I would
>> say is just a bit harder than that dog was, and I wouldn't have it any
>> other
>> way. I heard that Liz was career-changed for allergies, but I still think
>> about her from time to time.
>>
>> I wish Seeing Eye would tell us the names of practice dogs when we work
>> with
>> them. I especially remember the male GSD for our group. He wasn't really
>> sure this was a good idea. :)
>>
>> Angie
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Tracy Carcione" <carcione at access.net>
>> To: "NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users"
>> <nagdu at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Wednesday, December 02, 2009 2:35 PM
>> Subject: Re: [nagdu] The new GDB.
>>
>>
>> That's interesting that GDB is using "practice dogs", as TSE calls them.
>> I remember my practice dogs.  One was a giant German shepherd, but as
>> mellow and sweet as pie.  Another was a very dainty golden girl.  And the
>> last was a big floloppy golden/lab cross who rolled over on his back and
>> gave me his paw.  "I'm so cute!  Don't you want to keep me? You can't 
>> make
>> me go back to the kennel!"
>> None of them at all like my Benny boy, who, Goddess help me, is just what
>> I asked for. <smile> But I wouldn't trade my Bubba. He's sweet too, in 
>> his
>> very guy way.
>> Tracy
>>
>>> Tracey,
>>> Hi, of course I remember the day I got Pascal! I did forget to mention
>>> that in my long message though. I arrived to class on Monday afternoon,
>>> and I got my dog on Thursday afternoon. It was the longest 3 days of my
>>> life! For those first few days without the dog we did a lot of Juno work
>>> and even worked with some dogs currently in training. We just had the
>>> training dogs do obedience and heel. They gave me one built like a
>>> horse,
>>> he pulled like crazy, and did not listen well. Thank God the dog they
>>> gave
>>> me for my guide was so much better. Hope this helps.
>>> Deanna and Pascal
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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