[nagdu] Update on Eye Dog Foundation

Tue Aug 24 15:40:02 UTC 2010

So never mind a little thing like fraud...  Now they've taken to kidnapping?
Or what's the phrase for detaining someone against their will?  it's early.

That is really horrifying.  I'm glad we're working on it.

Tami Smith-Kinney

-----Original Message-----
From: nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
Of Marion Gwizdala
Sent: Monday, August 23, 2010 12:28 AM
To: NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users
Subject: Re: [nagdu] Update on Eye Dog Foundation

Lyn,
    The stories I heard from the two guys who went there last April were 
horrific! They were told a stack of lies, like they had a chef on the 
premises that would prepare special meals for him, since he is diabetic. 
They had a small area with a microwave oven and were clueless about a 
diabetic diet! They kept the two guys locked inside and wouldn't even let 
one of them go get his pain medication - actually kicked him to the side of 
the road and made him wait for more than two hours in 100 degree heat to be 
picked up. They told both of these guys their dogs were about 2 years old 
and both were almost 5!

Fraternally yours,
Marion

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lyn Gwizdak" <linda.gwizdak at cox.net>
To: "NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users" 
<nagdu at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Sunday, August 22, 2010 10:44 PM
Subject: Re: [nagdu] Update on Eye Dog Foundation

> 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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