[nagdu] another reason for having your own harness

[Marion Gwizdala]

Katrin,
    The biggest advantage we have is that we have more choices!

Fraternally yours,
Marion



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Katrin Andberg" <katrin at maplewooddog.com>
To: <nagdu at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Saturday, August 21, 2010 8:52 AM
Subject: Re: [nagdu] another reason for having your own harness


> Actually CCI (Canine Companions for Independence) one of the largest
> nationwide physical disability service dog groups NEVER transfers 
> ownership.
> The school ALWAYS owns the dog, or at least until retirement.  It is only
> after retirement that if the grad chooses to keep the retired dog they may
> apply for ownership.  We think we've got it bad with the guide programs? 
> At
> least I think all of them allow at least at some point transfer of
> ownership, if not granting it immediately upon graduation.  I have a 
> friend
> with a mobility disability who is thinking of getting a CCI dog and we 
> have
> been talking about CCI's policy (and the guide programs policies)
> extensively lately.  Neither of us is feeling at all comfortable with 
> CCI's
> policy.
>
>
>
> Katrin
>
>
>
> Katrin Andberg
>
> Katrin at maplewooddog.com
>
>
>
> -----
>
>
>
> Hello listers.
>
> I haven't been on here a while.
>
> However this subject really struck me deep inside.
>
>
>
> When we write on this list serve or any other, these comments are 
> available
> to any and all people or schools that care to read now or later in the
> archives, and I think we forget that. I know I sure do.
>
> But given that I still would like to say the following about how I feel
> about most services for blind people and
>
> At the guide dog schools for the most part and state services for the 
> blind
> it seems to me its like two languages are being spoken at the same time.
>
> One language is telling us you really one of us, and the sub language 
> which
> is louder is, not really, but to stay in business we have to pretend your
> equal.
>
> I am not saying every school and every state services speak these two
> languages at once, however in my life experience most do.
>
> I am finding out that the longer I am around the more it hurts. So I try 
> and
> stay clear if I can.
>
> When I stop and think about it, there is no other animal training 
> schooling
> anywhere I have heard of that says after you and your animal have 
> completed
> training you can't have ownership for a year or two, or never.
>
> Can you imagine, if this was any other physical disability group?
>
> Unheard of, I believe.
>
> But we don't as a group for the most part have the money or the drive to
> attempt owner training, so we suck up, and take the deal, even though 
> inside
> it kills us.
>
> Knowing that there are a couple of schools that transfer ownership at end 
> of
> trading as its been said already, speak volumes. These are not two 
> language
> schools.
>
>
>
> Stepper
>
>
>
>
>
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