[nagdu] Dog names, Sundance

[Linda Gwizdak]

Hi Annalisa,
That was a neat story about how Sundance got her name.  At Seeing Eye, the 
puppy raisers don't name the pups - Seeing Eye does.  We also don't get to 
meet puppy raisers.

Landon has been a popular boy's name for several years now and that's 
probably where Seeing Eye got that name.  And I got the dog named Landon. 
There is a little boy across the street from my Mom and Dad's and his name 
is Landon.  The two Landons have not met yet.

I like the actor, Michael Landon of the TV shows,"Bonanza", "Little House On 
The Prairie", and he was connected with some other shows before he died.

I liked the name for my dog. He and I have names that start with L and we 
both have the same shade of red hair!  No, it wasn't planned that way! LOL 
The instructor had two dogs in mind for me, Hugo or Landon.  After the Juno 
walks, they decided on Landon for me.  A classmate got Hugo.  Turns out that 
Hugo had a medical condition that wasn't discovered until he went home with 
his person. Hugo was retired a few month after going home.  The man has 
since returned to Seeing Eye and has a new dog.  I'm glad I got Landon!

Lyn and Landon
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "AnnaLisa Anderson" <annalisa at sector14.net>
To: "NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users" 
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Sent: Sunday, February 07, 2010 4:10 PM
Subject: Re: [nagdu] Dog names, Sundance


> Hi Tracy,
>
> I wondered if anyone would bite, heheh.  Well, this is how Sundance got 
> her
> name.  It's kind of a long story (but a good one), just to warn anyone who
> wants to stop reading now.
>
> Sunny's raiser, Elizabeth, is a realtor.  She met a guy who was a pilot, 
> had
> his own lear jet (however you spell that), and was looking for a piece of
> land where he could have his own private air strip.  Elizabeth told me 
> this
> guy, whose name was Roger, was a bachelor, quite handsome and a real
> charmer, so they became friends.  No, not that kind of friends... she is
> married and almost old enough to be his mother.  Anyway, Roger had two
> golden retrievers as pets, Butch and Sundance.  Elizabeth got to know both
> dogs, though Butch was an old dog at the time she knew Roger, and Sundance
> was a puppy.  Roger's Sundance was a female too.  Roger used to fly in air
> shows, like at Oshkosh, and he used to give plane rides to people without
> charge.  This is what he was doing at a show in La Crosse, WI, one 
> weekend.
> There was a newlywed couple there, and he took the bride up one day and 
> the
> groom the next.  When he was flying with the groom, Roger lost control of
> the plane because somehow the engines came unbolted from the wings.  He
> tried very hard to land the airplane safely but just couldn't regain
> control, and both he and his passenger were killed.  Elizabeth decided 
> that,
> in Roger's memory,  the next pup she raised would be named Sundance.
>
> Elizabeth told me the two Sundances did meet each other and played 
> together.
> The original Sundance is living with Roger's parents and is about 10 years
> old now.  Elizabeth has shared some of the emails I have sent her about me
> and Sunny with Roger's parents, and she told me they really enjoy reading
> them.
>
> Now you see why I wouldn't want to change her name?  I am so glad Leader
> makes it possible for us to meet with our dogs' raiser now if we wish to.
> Otherwise I would never have known of this very moving tribute.  You just
> never know where your dog's name might spring from.  At Leader, the 
> raisers
> are allowed to name the pups, and I can tell you, they give very serious
> thought to the name they choose.
>
> AnnaLisa and Sundance
>
>
>
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