[nagdu] Keeping hold of that leash

Angie Matney leadinglabbie at mpmail.net
Mon Mar 9 00:52:30 UTC 2009


Hey Tami,

You'd think that after 7.5 years of dog handling, I would have known something was up! LOL! I am positive she just thought we were going to stay home and I forgot to take the harness off.

Yani is the dog who always makes me smile.

Angie

On Sun, 8 Mar 2009 14:42:41 -0700, Tamara Smith-Kinney wrote:

>ROTFL!  Since Mom forgot, I'll just do it myself!

>I've had a few of those surprises after not thinking about the strange
>sounds coming from the other room, too...  Mitzi is always very proud of her
>cleverness and prances around happily while I stare in shock at the results.
>/smile/

>Tami Smith-Kinney

>-----Original Message-----
>From: nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
>Of Angie Matney
>Sent: Saturday, March 07, 2009 6:21 PM
>To: NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users
>Subject: Re: [nagdu] Keeping hold of that leash

>Both of my dogs have managed to unharness themselves. Yani is especially
>good at this. Once this past summer, I left my internship and went home (I
>was living in a building across a courtyard from where I was working) to get
>my BrailleNote in 
>preparation for a meeting. Since I wasn't going to be there for very long, I
>didn't unharness Yani. While I was getting my BrailleNote, I heard a strange
>combination of sounds in the living room, but I honestly didn't think much
>of it. (I should have 
>known better.) Then, a minute later, I went to the door and called Yani to
>me. She happily pranced over, sans harness. Considering that the TSE harness
>had a martingale, this was a pretty impressive feat! My return to work was
>delayed while I 
>searched for the thing. Fortunatley, I lived in a very small apartment.
>(grin) I found it, with all of its buckles still buckled, in the middle of
>the living room floor. I'm sure Yani just thought I'd simply forgotten to
>take it off when we got home. She was happy 
>enough to put it on and go back to the office.

>Angie






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