[nagdu] Dogs and snow

[Tracy Carcione]

Hi Tina.
That will be a big change!  Dress warm!  And make sure, somehow, you have
shoes or boots that will give you some traction on ice.

It's legendarily frigid, taking the dogs at 5:30 AM to relieve at TSE.

George Washington and his troops spent a winter at Valley Forge, and
another in Morristown, and I'm told they said Morristown was colder.  And
they had no propper shoes or coats!  I often think of them when I have to
sally forth in bad weather.  And I often think of people who might be in
class at TSE, and give quiet thanks it's not me.  I expect I'll have to
pay for that some day, and go to class in January.
Anyway, best of luck when you go to class.
Tracy

> Hi /Tracy- I live in Southern California and I have had three dogs from
> GDA
> and now, I will be leaving for the Seeing Eye on Jan. 31, so it will be a
> change for me.
> Tina
>
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> Subject: [nagdu] Dogs and snow
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> Someone said something about Leader dogs, and other dogs from schools in
> snow country, having an advantage because they'd been trained in snow.  I
> used to think that too, until someone pointed out to me that only half the
> dogs had actually worked in snow at the school.  My Ben was trained in New
> Jersey, but he came in sometime in April and left in September, so he
> probably did not work in snow before I got him.  The only way to be sure a
> dog had experience with snow work would be to go to class between December
> and June, I think.  A friend of mine says that the people in the January
> class at TSE are really serious about getting a dog.  You'd have to be,
> because you'd have to be willing to be out in truly nasty weather.
>
> I had 5 dogs from GDB in California before switching to TSE, and they all
> did just fine in snow, despite never working in it before.  They'd all
> seen
> it though.  Four of them were raised in snow country, and the family of
> the
> one who wasn't made a point of taking her up to the mountains to
> experience
> the cold white stuff.
> Tracy
>
>
>
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