[nagdu] Sad News

[Sherri]

Laura, I am sure sorry about your dog. How long have you had her? I have a 
Leader Dog too, Bailey, and sometimes I wonder about her distractibility 
too.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Allison Nastoff" <anastoff at wi.rr.com>
To: "NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users" 
<nagdu at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Friday, February 27, 2009 9:29 PM
Subject: Re: [nagdu] Sad News


> Hi Lora,
> I wanted to let you know that I am very sorry about your loss.  I do have 
> some idea what you are going through.  When I was in seventh grade, Indy, 
> our beloved pet German shepherd died.  We managed without a dog for six 
> months, but then my sister and I couldn't stand the emptiness in the 
> house, and not being greeted with a bark and a wagging tail when we came 
> home.  So we went to the Humane Society, and adopted a lab from our humane 
> society.  However it turned out that because this dog was a stray, and 
> probably separated from his mother too young, he had severe behavior 
> problems, including signs of aggression.  We kept him for about seven 
> months, and tried to correct his problems, but he was becoming more and 
> more difficult to handle, and my parents were afraid he might hurt 
> someone.
> One day, when I came home from school, the dog was gone.  Mom had talked 
> about taking him back to the humane society for several days, and that day 
> she had done it.  Deep down, I knew that we had done what was best for 
> both the dog, and for us, but I missed having a dog so badly that I cried 
> the rest of that day, and was depressed for several days after that.  Even 
> years later, I still find myself wondering where he is now, or if there 
> was anything else we could have done.
> Just because a dog has behavior problems doesn't change the fact that this 
> dog has become a member of the family, and has filled a place in your 
> heart.  I imagine that this is how you are feeling.  Don't be ashamed if 
> you need to grieve, even cry openly about loosing Myrtle.  But also know 
> that you did what was best, and that while there will be some grieving, 
> life always works out the way it is supposed to.  My family chose not to 
> get another dog until I was ready for my guide dog, and although the five 
> year wait was agony at times, especially when seeing other people with 
> dogs, now that I have Gilbert, I realize that the wait was worth it. 
> Although I still think about the dog we had to send back sometimes, I have 
> moved on.  I am sure that in time, you will too.
> Allison and Gilbert
>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>>From: Lora and Myrtle <blindhistory at gmail.com
>>To: "NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog
> Users" <nagdu at nfbnet.org>,guidedog-friends at yahoogroups.com
>>Date sent: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 12:51:43 -0700
>>Subject: [nagdu] Sad News
>
>>Today I got a call from my guide dog school and they are sending
> a crate to
>>pick Myrtle up.  She has become a very unsafe guide trying to
> lounge into
>>traffic getting very distracted by other dogs etc.  I agree that
> she has
>>become a very unsafe guide and is not reliable, but that doesn't
> make it any
>>less hard to deal with.
>
>>--
>>Lora and Leader Dog Myrtle
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