[nagdu] Trice leaving update.

[Linda Gwizdak]

Me too!!  Merry Christmas!!

Linda and Landon
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lora" <blindhistory at gmail.com>
To: "NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users" 
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Sent: Monday, December 21, 2009 6:24 PM
Subject: Re: [nagdu] Trice leaving update.


> Trice is 55lbs and I celebrate christmas.
>
> On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 6:07 PM, Linda Gwizdak 
> <linda.gwizdak at cox.net>wrote:
>
>> Lora,
>> How big is Trice???  The airlines think they're about to transport a
>> horse??!  Good grief. (grin!)
>>
>> I think you will like Seeing Eye.  It's too bad that Leader is acting 
>> like
>> a little one-man affair with their not being any help in your sending 
>> Trice
>> back.  I know they've been around for a long time - I have a book about 
>> them
>> that I found at a bookstall at a dog show in Del Mar, CA - good book and 
>> I
>> still have it.  Did you know that when the Lions Club started the school,
>> they used Dobies?  There's also a picture in the book of a White Shepherd
>> guide as well.  Haven't seen any White Shepherds from any school.  The 
>> White
>> Shepherd is shown via the United Kennel Club and isn't yet recognized by 
>> the
>> more familiar AKC.  They are identical to the ordinary German Shepherd
>> except that they are all white with black nose, eye rims, and lips - not 
>> an
>> Albino.
>>
>> Maybe you might like to wait til after Christmas to send Trice back if 
>> you
>> can't get her sent now.  I know it isn't fun for you - ben there - done
>> that.  I've had to send two dogs back on flights.  I also brought back 
>> one
>> when I went for  Jacob, who I had before Landon.
>>
>> Merry Christmas, Happy Channaka, Happy Kwanza - whatever you celebrate! 
>> And
>> a Happy Neew Year.
>>
>> Linda and Landon
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lora" <blindhistory at gmail.com>
>> To: "NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users" <
>> nagdu at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Monday, December 21, 2009 1:02 PM
>> Subject: [nagdu] Trice leaving update.
>>
>>
>>  I tried to send Trice back to Leader Dogs but the airlones told me that
>>> the
>>> crate was too big for the plane we (mom and I) were going to send him 
>>> on.
>>> There is another plane that the airlones suggested so my mom booked that
>>> flight. my mom volunteered to figure out the flight info for me since 
>>> she
>>> wanted to learn anyways.  I called leader dogs and couldn't get ahold of
>>> them. Almost everyone took this week off and the main line just goes to
>>> voicemail. I finally got ahold of their emergency line after trying for 
>>> 45
>>> minutes so at least Leader Dogs knows they aren't picking Trice up 
>>> today.
>>> I
>>> didn't know it would be so difficult to try and tell a school that the 
>>> dog
>>> isn't working out and that the airlines wouldn't take the crate on a
>>> certain
>>> plane. Basically taking Trice back to Leader Dogs is a mess. Trice's
>>> harness
>>> and blanket along with a few papers went out in the mail today.
>>>
>>> The Seeing Eye received my letters of recommendation from my references.
>>> Now
>>> an instructor will come out. I am already impressed with how quickly The
>>> Seeing ye responds with letters of recommendation and emails.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Lora and Trice
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> -- 
> Lora and Trice
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