[nagdu] New dog

Ann Chiappetta dungarees at optonline.net
Mon Jul 13 01:11:54 UTC 2009


Hi Laura;
Good luck with Truyce. What school did you go to?
Wags, Annie & Ro
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lora" <blindhistory at gmail.com>
To: "NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users" 
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Sent: Sunday, July 12, 2009 6:38 PM
Subject: [nagdu] New dog


> Just wanted to let everyone know that I have a new dog guide. His name is
> Trice and he is a chocolate lab. At the moment things are working out 
> pretty
> well. He has barked a few times in harness (I have been home 3 weeks) one 
> of
> those times was because he was scared of an object (he was raised in a
> prison and hasn't been exposed to alot of stuff) and the other times was
> because a person walked in the room behind us and startled him. He does
> great guide work and when he does run me into something like a tree limb 
> it
> usually takes him once or twice to figure out how to fix said error. He is 
> a
> very sensitive boy and required back scratches during work to keep him
> motivated. He doesn't respond to verbal praise as well as physical.
> Thankfully when I physically praise him he gets right back to work.
>
> My time at the dog guide school where I got Trice was a challenge. Trice 
> was
> sick almost the whole time I was there. He had an ear, eye and bladder
> infection along with diarrea. It took the school two weeks to do anything
> about said issues even though I kept telling them. Trice still has loose
> stool, but has had no accidents. It is too early to tell, but I'm 
> seriously
> wondering if something in his food is bothering him.
>
> Even though I have had issues with this dog I think he is a keeper. The
> issues I am having with him are acceptable mistakes and nothing like my
> previous dog guide Myrtle.
>
> -- 
> Lora and Trice
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