[nagdu] Guide dog starter age

solsticesinger solsticesinger at gmail.com
Thu Feb 4 23:35:23 UTC 2010


I had a lot of trouble with my family not wanting me to bring my Rachel dog 
with me when we would go places. They would make up reasons why it wasn't a 
good idea. Luckily, even at seventeen, I was pretty assertive, so things 
worked out.

Shannon and Caroline
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tracy Carcione" <carcione at access.net>
To: "NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users" 
<nagdu at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 04, 2010 10:09 AM
Subject: Re: [nagdu] Guide dog starter age


Now I think about it, there was a 16-year-old in my first class at GDB, in
1980.  She did well, but I heard that she gave the dog up after a year.  I
heard her family kept saying things like "Do we have to bring the dog
along?" and she found it hard to say "Yes we do!"
I can relate to that.  For years and years my dad would say things like
that, and I would say yes, I was bringing the dog.  But I wasn't a kid,
and I was able to stand up to the pressure.
Tracy



_______________________________________________
nagdu mailing list
nagdu at nfbnet.org
http://www.nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/nagdu_nfbnet.org
To unsubscribe, change your list options or get your account info for nagdu:
http://www.nfbnet.org/mailman/options/nagdu_nfbnet.org/solsticesinger%40gmail.com 





More information about the NAGDU mailing list