[nagdu] Dobies as guides and training the left turn and keeping track of the leash

[Jennie Facer]

Oh Mardi,

I so so so am with you!  If anyone, and I mean anyone ripped my leash out of
my hand and kicked my dog off the bus, there would be a lawsuit from hell.
I don't care really if I don't win, but that person sure would remember me
for the rest of his/her life I can tell you that!

Jenn

-----Original Message-----
From: nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
Of Mardi Hadfield
Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2009 7:30 PM
To: nagdu at nfbnet.org
Subject: Re: [nagdu] Dobies as guides and training the left turn and keeping
track of the leash

Hi every one,   The story about Path Finders and them using Dobermans as
guides was very interesting.  My Trainer, Nick has a dog training business
called Path Finders. He mainly trains search and rescue dogs, but has
trained my guides and 2 other guides. He prefers to train guides for
wheelchair users, rather than the regular guides because he says it is more
challenging. He has gone back to school for now so he is not doing a lot of
training at this point.  Thanks for the pointers on training the left turn.
I will try that with Shaman.  I never thought I would have a problem keeping
track of my dog's leash as most of the time it is attached to my wheelchair.
The only time it is not is when I am getting on a bus, as my dog has to back
up in front of my chair so I can get into the wheelchair bay. The leash is
not long enough to leave it attached and have enough room for the dog to
back up with out me running over her,so I hold it in my hand,along with my
cane to feel my way into the bay. This is why that man on the bus was able
to rip the leash out of my hand and kick and push Nala off the bus. I have
now bought a second leash, which I will attach to my leash and keep it
attached to my chair so that hopefully, no one will be able to do this to my
dog again. I will also not have to ask the driver to hold my dogs leash when
getting on the short lift as we can't both fit on this type of lift at the
same time. The dog must go up on the lift first and then the driver has to
put the lift down again for me. There is no problems if we get a long lift,
or the newer ramps.They seem to always put the old buses with the short
lifts on the route that I take the most.  Have a great day,  Mardi and
Nala,semi-retired, and Shaman,gdit
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