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

Sat Feb 6 01:39:52 UTC 2010

Tami,
Well, yea - gotta have my color coordinations correct!!  It took two days 
for my instructor to notice the match of dog and my hair!

Lyn and Landon
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tamara Smith-Kinney" <tamara.8024 at comcast.net>
To: "'NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users'" 
<nagdu at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Friday, February 05, 2010 9:41 AM
Subject: Re: [nagdu] Interesting Names Re: guide dog book about young person

> Linda,
>
> Well, you do know how to accessorize.  /grin/
>
> Shortly before I moved out here, a young polish woman began bringing her 
> GSD
> puppy to the park.  He must be a really big fella by now!  I think she 
> used
> some German -- or maybe Polish -- commands. With her accent, they sounded
> wonderfully exotic and very fitting to her german dog! /smile/  She and 
> the
> owner of the young yet huge Belgian shepherd were both starting early
> training for that German dog sport I'm about to mangle the name of.
> Schatzhund?  Something like that. I was really intrigued and began to
> consider working some of that into Mitzi's training to keep her busy while
> she was growing up enough to be a guide dog -- she got the commands and
> guide work down so fast that there wasn't a lot to do there for awhile
> except review, reinforce and let her do "work" on limited safe routes 
> until
> she grew up a bit more and was ready to expand a smidge, and so on.  I
> really didn't want to her get stale before she was old enough to go to 
> work,
> so I was hard up for some way to keep that busy young mind out of trouble
> and moving in the right direction as it finished developing.  I also 
> thought
> it wouldn't hurt to have her cross-trained in something in case she needed 
> a
> fall back if guide work didn't pan out for her.
>
> Anyway, they almost had me hooked until they got to the guard dog facet of
> the sport.  /smile/  Not the best choice of avocation for a guide dog!  So 
> I
> just enjoyed watching them introduce the fundamentals with their dogs 
> while
> I played with Mitzi.
>
> I liked having Mitzi watch the shepherds learn obedience because she picks
> up so much from other dogs!  Neither puppy was up to more than a quick
> recall and release, with maybe a brief sit stay, in the middle of play.
> That shepherd response to commands, though, is so totally opposite of
> Mitzi's poodle style.  I can't see the current crop of subadult shepherds 
> at
> our new park as well, except as vague silhouettes, but I still do like to
> watch them.  Poodles do seem to have very similar personality traits, much
> more so than with labs or goldens, but the differences in how they express
> those traits are fun to observe, too.
>
> The Polish woman's accent wasn't strong, but it was really lovely, I
> thought.  I ran into an older gentleman from Poland on the bus and was 
> able
> to recognize his accent.  We ended up having an intriguing conversation
> about language, in fact, since he spoke 5 of them.
>
> He tried Polish on Mitzi. She gave him a bored look.  Then German.  Nope.
> Spanish?  She was mildly curious.  Then he spoke to her in French, and she
> grinned and wagged her tale.  /lol/  Guess she really is a French poodle!
> He got a big kick out of that and spent the rest of the journey talking to
> my dog in French.  /lol/
>
> Tami Smith-Kinney
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
> Of Linda Gwizdak
> Sent: Thursday, February 04, 2010 1:27 PM
> To: NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users
> Subject: Re: [nagdu] Interesting Names Re: guide dog book about young 
> person
>
> Marion,
> That is too cool to have Sarge be a Polish dog as well!  When he executes 
> a
> German command, you can give him the Polish - now, I'll mangle the
> spelling - Dubsha (thank you)!  Or was it "genkuya" - too many years ago
> that I heard Polish from my grandparents! (grin!) I'll have to ask one of 
> my
>
> Soo Bahk Do instructors - he's from Poland and speaks it with his mother.
> Hearing Polish brought me back many great memories of the Polish-American
> Club my grandfather took us to on occasion.
>
> Take care,
> The little red polack! I have red hair as well!  Along with Landon with 
> his
> matching hair! Lyn
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Marion & Martin" <swampfox1833 at verizon.net>
> To: "NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users"
> <nagdu at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 03, 2010 5:06 PM
> Subject: Re: [nagdu] Interesting Names Re: guide dog book about young 
> person
>
>
>> Linda,
>>    another interesting tidbit about Sarge is that, even though he is a
>> German Shepherd, he is actually from Poland! Isn't that a little too
>> sychronistic!
>>
>> fraternally yours,
>> The Big Red Polock!
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Linda Gwizdak" <linda.gwizdak at cox.net>
>> To: "NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users"
>> <nagdu at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Wednesday, February 03, 2010 1:02 PM
>> Subject: Re: [nagdu] Interesting Names Re: guide dog book about young
>> person
>>
>>
>>> Marion,
>>> That's neat about the German commands. Did you train police dogs while
>>> blind or were you fully sighted at the time? There was an article in our
>>> paper awhile back about a local visually impaired man who trained police
>>> and guard dogs and did it well - why of course!!!
>>>
>>> One of the things that will help your dog to learn the German commands 
>>> is
>
>>> to be sure to use the hand signals along with the English.  Maybe as a
>>> former trainer you already know about that (grin!)!
>>>
>>> Good luck with the new dog and hope your trainer's wife recovers well
>>> from her surgery. I bet you can't wait!!  I'd be tired of the long, 
>>> white
>
>>> one-legged dog by now!
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> Lyn and Landon
>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>> From: "Marion & Martin" <swampfox1833 at verizon.net>
>>> To: "NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users"
>>> <nagdu at nfbnet.org>
>>> Sent: Wednesday, February 03, 2010 3:27 AM
>>> Subject: Re: [nagdu] Interesting Names Re: guide dog book about young
>>> person
>>>
>>>
>>>> Nicole,
>>>>    I think that the dog would do just fine with a name change during or
>>>> after training. My past guide's name is Louiza. I call her Lou-Lou,
>>>> Weeza, and sometimes....well, things I won't write in email! (smile)
>>>>    In fact, because my wife and I both work dogs and I was a former
>>>> police dog trainer, I am going to switch my dog to German commands by
>>>> pairing the German ones with the English for a while then only using
>>>> German. I'll let you know how that works!
>>>>
>>>> fraternally yours,
>>>> Marion
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>>> From: "Nicole B. Torcolini" <ntorcolini at wavecable.com>
>>>> To: "NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users"
>>>> <nagdu at nfbnet.org>
>>>> Sent: Tuesday, February 02, 2010 10:04 PM
>>>> Subject: Re: [nagdu] Interesting Names Re: guide dog book about young
>>>> person
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Lol, and, indeed, that would not have worked.  I am sure that their
>>>>> personalities do not match in the least.  The reason that I do not
>>>>> recommend changing a dog's name is mainly because that is what they
>>>>> have been trained with, and they go through enough other changes, but
>>>>> the situation that you talk about is quite different; I did not mean 
>>>>> to
>
>>>>> generalize or anything.
>>>>> Anyone else have any funny name stories?
>>>>>
>>>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>>>> From: "The Pawpower Pack" <pawpower4me at gmail.com>
>>>>> To: "NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users"
>>>>> <nagdu at nfbnet.org>
>>>>> Sent: Tuesday, February 02, 2010 5:45 PM
>>>>> Subject: Re: [nagdu] Interesting Names Re: guide dog book about young
>>>>> person
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> When I adopted Laveau from the humane society, her name was Marge.
>>>>>> That had to go because... it just did.  It didn't take her long to
>>>>>> switch and now when I say or sign her name she wags like crazy.  She
>>>>>> was only a year old and I don't know how long she had been stuck with
>>>>>> the horrid moniker of Marge.  No offense to anyone with that name but
>>>>>> it just wasn't for her.  Also I'm a huge Harry Potter fan and 
>>>>>> everyone
>
>>>>>> would have called her aunt Marge.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Rox and the Kitchen Bitches
>>>>>> Bristol (retired), Mill'E SD. and Laveau Guide Dog, CGC.
>>>>>> "It's wildly irritating to have invented something as revolutionary 
>>>>>> as
>
>>>>>> sarcasm, only to have it abused by amateurs." -- Christopher Moore
>>>>>> pawpower4me at gmail.com
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Windows Live Only: Brisomania at hotmail.com
>>>>>> AIM: Brissysgirl Yahoo: lillebriss
>>>>>>
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