[nagdu] Do's and Don't's

Ann Chiappetta dungarees at optonline.net
Mon Jun 1 23:53:39 UTC 2009


Oh, yes, last week I caught it in my hands once, another time in her water 
dish, and just when I thought there wouldn't be anymore, she yaked on the 
paratransit bus before we even took off. All I could think about was, please 
don't yak on the brand new office carpet! LOL.
Annie and Verona
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Angie Matney" <angie.matney at gmail.com>
To: "'NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users'" 
<nagdu at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Monday, June 01, 2009 6:35 PM
Subject: Re: [nagdu] Do's and Don't's


> This reminds me of a meeting I attended for work when I was still working
> with Glaze. My colleague and I did a presentation. Then, during the next
> speaker's remarks, Glaze jumped up, and I started to hear that
> all-too-ominous  sound of a Lab about to throw up. I jumped up, too, and I
> actually said to her, in this hushed, desperate voice, "Glaze, don't throw
> up! Don't throw up!" Then, my colleague and I rushed outside with Glaze.
> Well, Glaze took my command to heart. She didn't throw up. Unfortunatley,
> she waited to throw up until we were back at work and standing in the 
> hall.
> Ah well.
>
> Angie with Yani and retired Glaze
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
> Of Katrin Andberg
> Sent: Monday, June 01, 2009 4:37 PM
> To: nagdu at nfbnet.org
> Subject: Re: [nagdu] Do's and Don't's
>
> I train my dogs to let me know when they have to go out to use the 
> bathroom
> and also to go on command when I tell them to.  So during the day if I get
> super involved in doing work and don't realize that one or the other
> probably needs to go out, then they start to bug me until I get up and 
> take
> them out.  I guess it just transferred over to the nighttime, it's not
> something I set out to teach them, to wake me up in the middle of the 
> night
> to go out if they are sick, it's something they all do and something I
> assumed most well house trained dogs did.  And no I don't have an outside
> door near my bedroom, I have to get up and walk down the hall, through the
> dining area, through the kitchen to the back door.  If they are sick and I
> open the bedroom door, the dog rushes to the back door, waits for me to 
> get
> there and open it and is sick outside.  The only time accidents happen
> inside is if I'm not home and the dog is crated and sick.
>
>
>
> Katrin & James
>
>
>
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