[nagdu] bad to worse

Joy Relton jrelton at verizon.net
Thu Oct 22 02:52:54 UTC 2009


Beautifully put, Tami. There really are a lot of things to consider. I've
been therewith a dog who had hepatitis I there were days when he really
couldn't work safely because he just wasn't felling well. 

-----Original Message-----
From: nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
Of Tamara Smith-Kinney
Sent: Wednesday, October 21, 2009 4:26 PM
To: 'NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users'
Subject: Re: [nagdu] bad to worse


Lora,

This must be so heartbreaking for you!  Not to mention terrifying.

Do let us know how the school responds.  Meanwhile, it's probably time to
break out the white cane.  Things are starting to sound pretty dangerous.

Who knows how Trice would be without his chronic health problems.  When
Mitzi was having her serial UTIs, I finally figured out there were times she
just shouldn't work.  Which was frustrating, since it really impeded our
team building process.  I would take her along with me to work on etiquette
and obedience out of harness, but having cane in one hand and dog in the
other isn't always workable.  We never did figure out what was causing them,
but we're nearly a year since the last one, and I still live in fear of
going through all that again.  Ugh!  But her work would suffer and she would
take to wandering and would get grumpy and guardy in harness.  And anxious.
I had known her in good health, so I knew it wasn't her norm, but it was
still hard to determine if she was coming up with a behavioral problem or if
she was sick again until the accidents started.  Sigh.

I don't see what you can do if the school won't take responsibility for the
vet bills so that you can get him healthy again without going broke.  And
until he's healthy again, how can you know what kind of guide dog he would
be if he were well?  If the problem is the underlying illness, training
won't solve it.

I wish I could give you something helpful, but all I can do is send you
long-distance hugs and well wishes.  Pass a few on to Trice.

Tami Smith-Kinney

-----Original Message-----
From: nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
Of Lora
Sent: Tuesday, October 20, 2009 4:35 PM
To: NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users
Subject: [nagdu] bad to worse

I was walking to school and Trice took me out into traffic 3 times in a
mile. I thought he was guiding at first because there is alot of cars on the
side of the street and such but he kept on walking across the street in the
middle of the block. I just emailed my trainer so we'll see what she says. I
know that me being frustrated isn't helping Trice any but I've had problems
since training. Sigh he's becoming a safety risk.

Is it common that dogs just decide to do their own thing like that? What is
first year of working with a dog supposed to be like?

-- 
Lora and Trice
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