[nagdu] oppinions requested about possible next dog.

Mon Feb 1 04:00:27 UTC 2010

No worries, happens to all emailers at least once. If it hasn't
happened to anyone reading this yet, you're time will come, :)

Wayne

On 1/31/10, Albert J Rizzi <albert at myblindspot.org> wrote:
> Sorry, now scratch all that.
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
> Of Albert J Rizzi
> Sent: Sunday, January 31, 2010 9:59 PM
> To: 'NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users'
> Cc: info at myblindspot.org
> Subject: Re: [nagdu] oppinions requested about possible next dog.
>
> Now make sure you record the time spent on this and send the same to Suzanne
> and keep a record for yourself. Also include the time spent on the phone
> this evening when we spoke.
>
> Albert J. Rizzi, M.Ed.
> CEO/Founder
> My Blind Spot, Inc.
> 90 Broad Street - 18th Fl.
> New York, New York  10004
> www.myblindspot.org
> PH: 917-553-0347
> Fax: 212-858-5759
> "The person who says it cannot be done, shouldn't interrupt the one who is
> doing it."
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
> Of Wayne Merritt
> Sent: Sunday, January 31, 2010 8:50 PM
> To: NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users
> Subject: Re: [nagdu] oppinions requested about possible next dog.
>
> Perhaps I should amend that. It was too soon for me,  or I wasn't as
> mature as I might have been at 21 or 22, or later. Everyone's
> situation is different, but I've looked back often and wondered about
> it, and about my other experiences in my early twenties. I don't have
> any regrets about getting a dog at 20 or later. My only possible
> regret, if I had any, was that I didn't wait longer. But, it's that
> hine sight thing.
>
> I grew up in the environment where many people were asking when I was
> going to get a dog, where other blind people, and some sighted people,
> told me that I needed a dog, and where I was amazed by the guide dogs
> I came across. I soked up everything I could learn about them, even
> doing a couple of papers on them and anxiously awaited the day when I
> would get one. Then I did, and I wondered after a few days what I had
> gotten myself into. It was somewhere during this time that I wondered
> about going home early, but figured that I had made a commitment by
> going to training, and that I should stick it out to the end. Had I
> done so, gone hoem that is, I might have avoided some adjustment
> issues in the first 6 months that all dog users go through, that were
> particularly tough for me. Then again, if I had gone home early, I
> would've missed out on all the great experiences of having a guide
> dog,of flying through and around a college campus, and of having a
> blank look on my face when my dog relieved himself in the middle of a
> heavily traveled sidewalk in the midst of a class change. No, I'm not
> regretful, but better for the experience. I have no doubt that if I
> had decided to go home, that The Seeign Eye would have supported my
> decision. At least now though I can look back on those experiences and
> try to bring some reality to eager students I meet today in my job who
> are just like I was, all they want is a guide dog, particularly the
> ones that must have a German Shepehrd. I just smile and think, "Boy, I
> was like that too."
>
> Sincerely,
> Wayne
>
> On 1/31/10, Nicole B. Torcolini <ntorcolini at wavecable.com> wrote:
>> I find your comment about too young interesting.  I got Lexia a little
> over
>> two months before my 18th birthday.
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Wayne Merritt" <wcmerritt at gmail.com>
>> To: "NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users"
>> <nagdu at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Sunday, January 31, 2010 2:32 PM
>> Subject: Re: [nagdu] oppinions requested about possible next dog.
>>
>>
>>> I'm not sure what the percentage of people who try a guide and end up
>>> sending it back or going home early in the training program is, but it
>>> does happen. I've heard stories from both sides, of a woman who sent
>>> the dog back within her first 2 months of being home, after her class
>>> date, and the dog was matched with another student successfully. There
>>> was also a user in my last class who went home after the first week
>>> due to all the dog responsibilities. So it does happen. This thought
>>> of giving up even crossed my mind when I was in my first class 15
>>> years ago, but I figured that I had made a commitment and I stuck it
>>> out. Looking back, my only regret might be that I went when I was too
>>> young, at 20, but other than that I have no regrets. Also guessing
>>> here, but I'd be willing to bet that if you did decide to get a dog,
>>> went through training, came home and then decided that having a dog
>>> was too much, or even if you decided this while in training, the
>>> school and people in that class would understand and support you. So
>>> go for it! And keep us updated on your journey.
>>>
>>> Wayne
>>>
>>> On 1/30/10, Tracy Carcione <carcione at access.net> wrote:
>>>> Hi Stepper.
>>>> I too tend to agree with your wife.  You could try it, and, if it
> doesn't
>>>> work out, well, it was still worth a try.  Although the little weasels
>>>> have a way of getting into your heart that makes them hard to give up.
>>>>
>>>> I remember being worried about the responsibilities of dog ownership
>>>> before I got my first dog, even though I'd had pets before.  Then I got
>>>> Glade, and the responsibilities were really nothing to have worried
>>>> about.
>>>>  I adjusted my schedule a bit, and that was it.  The benefits far
>>>> outweighed the costs.
>>>>
>>>> Hasn't it been a goal of yours for a long time, to get another dog?
> It's
>>>> natural to be nervous about the change, but I think it's worth going
>>>> forward.  If it doesn't work out, it's still OK.
>>>>
>>>> You asked for opinions, and there's mine, for what it's worth.
>>>> Good luck.
>>>> Tracy
>>>>
>>>>
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