[nagdu] bad to worse

[Tamara Smith-Kinney]

Lora,

I'm glad they're sending someone out.  And that you will travel safely in
the meantime.  I hope you get better results this time than you did last.

Hugs.

Tami Smith-Kinney

-----Original Message-----
From: nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
Of Lora
Sent: Wednesday, October 21, 2009 8:51 PM
To: NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users
Subject: Re: [nagdu] bad to worse

My trainer said that I should not work the dog and that Leader would be out
in about a week. Hopefully they will be helpful. I haven't really
experienced alot of good from leader so I can't say if they are a fine
school or not. From my experience I would disagree greatly.

On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 8:52 PM, Joy Relton <jrelton at verizon.net> wrote:

> 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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Lora and Trice
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