[nagdu] Interesting Names Re: guide dog book about young person

[Nicole B. Torcolini]

Sometimes people have a hard time understanding the name Lexia; sometimes I 
spell it.  Also, when I went for an extended eval, I worked with a dog named 
Seth.  I had a little trouble with the th on the end of the name; I think 
that I actually requested a dog without a th at the end of the name when I 
had my home interview.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Wayne Merritt" <wcmerritt at gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [nagdu] Interesting Names Re: guide dog book about young person


> When I first got Gucci in training, I was worried that I couldn't
> pronounce the hard G in her name. I've had some minor pronnunciation
> issues wiht some letters, including G, which people have commented on
> to me through the years. When I said her name to my trainer several
> times over the next day or so, he said that he could understand me
> just fine. He did suggest an alternative, of Lucy, which sounded like
> Gucci, but by that time Gucci the name and the dog had grown on me a
> little and I was starting to like the name. Of course, now when people
> I'm comfortable with ask her name and I tell them, many of them still
> have trouble understanding that hard G. I figure though that as long
> as Gucci the dog understands me, then I've got nothing to worry about.
> So I suppose a name change could happen in training, but it would
> probably need to sound similar to the dog's actual name, like gucci
> and Lucy. In hindsight though, I'm glad I didn't change her name to
> Lucy; I'm not sure I could have lived with all the plays on words with
> Lucy over Gucci. Besides, Gucci fits more of her behaviors and habits
> of laying, since she looks like an upper class dog, or a dog with
> style. For instance, often, when laying on her stomach, she will turn
> her head to one side and rest it on that side's front leg. I'm told
> that when this happens, that she looks very regal.
>
> Wayne
>
> On 2/2/10, Nicole B. Torcolini <ntorcolini at wavecable.com> wrote:
>> They certainly have some interesting names sometimes.  Did you know that
>> Buddy, the first guide dog, was originally named Kiss!  Although, in my
>> humble opinion, I do not consider it a good idea to change your dog's 
>> name,
>> I would have changed that one too.
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Rachel and Rhett" <serenityangel1983 at gmail.com>
>> To: "NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users"
>> <nagdu at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Tuesday, February 02, 2010 2:58 PM
>> Subject: Re: [nagdu] guide dog book about young person
>>
>>
>>> The book where the dog is named sister is Maggie by my side. I know
>>> because we read it when I was at Pilot because that's where the author 
>>> got
>>>
>>> two of her dogs. It was about the author's experience at Pilot. My, how
>>> things change.
>>> Rachel and Rhett
>>>
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