[nagdu] Update on Eye Dog Foundation

[Lyn Gwizdak]

Hi all,
I was a graduate of Eye Dog in 1995. The dog I got was a nice dog, but I 
didn't feel she was that well trained - especially in traffic checks. We 
never did them - no way to the thoroughness that Seeing Eye does! We just 
did one day of working in a residential area with a small rectangular park. 
the instructors drove some traffic checks there on those quiet side 
streets - never on the major roads in Phoenix.

Also, my dog had only one speed - FAST - no matter if we were in an open 
area or going through the aisles of a grocery store.  I had to physically 
slow our pace to work safely in the stores.  It is too bad this has happened 
at this school - remember that long article in the Braille Monitor a year or 
so ago? Yeah, they should just die and hang up the harnesses in that schol!

I only had this dog for 8 months because I got a shoulder and back injury 
and couldn't work a dog for a long, long, LONG year.  Then I went to Seeing 
Eye.

Lyn and Landon
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Marion Gwizdala" <blind411 at verizon.net>
To: "NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users" 
<nagdu at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Sunday, August 22, 2010 3:42 PM
Subject: Re: [nagdu] Update on Eye Dog Foundation


> Mardi,
>    I received a copy of the message Diana sent to you. As she said, we 
> have two people who had horrible experiences at the hands of Gwen brown at 
> EDF! I am certain that EDF will be shut down in the not-too-distant 
> future!
>
> fraternally yours,
> Marion
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Mardi Hadfield" <wolfsinger.lakota at gmail.com>
> To: <nagdu at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Sunday, August 22, 2010 6:06 PM
> Subject: [nagdu] Update on Eye Dog Foundation
>
>
>> Hi every one,I have been keeping in touch with Diana Anderson,one of the
>> Puppy Raisers for the Eye Dog Foundation.. After the death of my first
>> guide,Lily, I contacted the EDF by phone and email to apply for a dog.I 
>> have
>> contacted them many times over the years and never received any answers
>> back. That is only one of the reasons that I continued to owner train my 
>> own
>> dogs with the help of a trainer.The other reasons are that I can not 
>> travel
>> far from my home and I am a wheel chair user. In my correspondence with 
>> EDF,
>> I did mention that I was a wheelchair user and asked if they would 
>> consider
>> training a dog for me.Alas, never got any answers to my many 
>> inquiries.After
>> hearing about all the problems associated with the Eye Dog Foundation and
>> talking to Diana about the situation, she has kept me updated from time 
>> to
>> time. Recently, there have been 2 gentlemen that applied for dogs from 
>> EDF.
>> One received the dog that Diana raised and the other gentleman was denied
>> his dog just before graduation. He was escorted out the front gate and 
>> left
>> there to wait over 2 hours until he could get a ride
>> home.I do not know the reasons for this.The gentleman who did receive a 
>> dog
>> is very unsatisfied with the training that his dog received,and feels 
>> that
>> the dog is unsafe.We are all working together to get EDF shut down as a
>> fraudulent charity.We do not know how many others have contacted EDF and
>> received no contact back, but only 2 dogs have been "trained" and only 1
>> placed in 3 years.Still other dogs have remained in the kennel untrained 
>> and
>> unplaced. Marion, Diana wanted me to contact you about this matter and I
>> will call you.   Mardi and Shaman and Nala,retired.
>> -- 
>> http://wolfsinger-lakota.blogspot.com/
>> http://wolfsinger2-thegoldendragon.blogspot.com
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