[nagdu] travel to the school was Where your dog sleeps at night, etc.

[Julie J]

Jennifer,

I am really very confused as to how your Mom taking you to the program would 
interfere with you and the dog, since you won't have the dog yet.

Unless your Mom wanted to stay with you during the weeks of training?  What 
am I missing?

I'm not saying the school rep was incorrect.  Perhaps making a clean break 
from the family and flying would be the best for you.  I have no idea what 
is best for you, only you know that.

Julie

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jennifer L Finley" <jenniferfinley at embarqmail.com>
To: "NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users" 
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Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2010 5:10 PM
Subject: Re: [nagdu] Where your dog sleeps at night, etc.


> WhenI talked to the guy that is going to be interviewing me, I told him 
> that my mom wanted to bring me.  He told me that it would be easyer on me 
> and the dog to fly.
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "AnnaLisa Anderson" <annalisa at sector14.net>
> To: "NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users" 
> <nagdu at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 24, 2010 6:47 PM
> Subject: Re: [nagdu] Where your dog sleeps at night, etc.
>
>
>> Hi Jennifer,
>>
>> Don't be afraid to ask questions.  I sure wish I'd had a list like this 
>> to
>> go to when I got my first dog, but email was in its infancy then and 
>> nobody
>> had thought of list serves yet. <smile>
>>
>> I have been very fortunate that both my dogs have had very good house
>> manners.  Neither of them  has felt the need to roam around the house at
>> night, and I have felt no need to tie down or crate either of them.
>> Everyone else is right though, when you first bring the new dog home, you
>> will want to keep it either near you on leash or on tie down until you 
>> get
>> to know your dog better and to teach them the ground rules.  In the case 
>> of
>> my current dog, I didn't have to keep her on leash or tie down very long,
>> though I did have a tie down chain on the bed for several months and did 
>> put
>> her on it when going to bed at night, even though she really didn't need 
>> it.
>> She didn't mind either and sort of expected it.  I have a fleece mat for
>> Sunny to sleep on, which I bought from PetEdge.  Don't remember the brand
>> name though, but it's fleece on both sides, and she seems to like it.
>>
>> I do have a story about giving freedom a bit too soon with Sunny... 
>> After
>> about a week of being home from school and displaying very good manners, 
>> I
>> decided to try giving her some freedom in  the house, in a limited 
>> fashion
>> at first.  She did pretty well but of course had to try to get into the 
>> cat
>> food, but she responded very well to voice commands and immediately left 
>> it
>> alone when I told her to, and she leaves it alone most of the time now
>> unless she thinks she can get away with it. <grin> Same with the litter
>> box...  I don't have a good place to keep cat food or the boxes up high 
>> (I
>> have two boxes and three cats).  She does like kitty crunchies, so we 
>> have
>> to watch her a bit on that one. Again, she leaves it alone mostly, unless
>> she knows no one is paying attention... <smile>  Oh, both the litter 
>> boxes
>> are the kind with covers on them.  Anyway, I digress...
>>
>> After I started giving her limited freedom, one night I was doing laundry
>> and had left my condo for a few minutes to go to the laundry room.
>> Unbeknownst to me, Sunny had snuck out the door with my boyfriend when he
>> went outside.  She led him a very merry chase before he finally caught 
>> her
>> and got her back inside. <grin>  Fortunately we have a good sized 
>> driveway
>> and parking lot area, so she wasn't in the street.  At the time I had no
>> clue it was happening, when I had left for the laundry room, Sunny was 
>> safe
>> in the house.  We can laugh about it now, of course.  Needless to say, 
>> she
>> lost her freedom again after that for a while.
>>
>> Anyway, like others have said, these are all things you will learn when 
>> you
>> go for training.
>>
>> That's too bad your family has to be so negative about this.  Will your
>> parents be bringing you to the school, or will you fly?  Just wondering.
>> When I went to Leader Dogs for the first time, my parents drove me there 
>> so
>> they got to see where I would be staying and I think they got a tour of 
>> the
>> school and the kennels, etc.  I still think that would be a great idea if
>> your parents could do something similar.  I'm wondering how much of your
>> parents' resistance is simply fear of the unknown.  Did you have pets
>> growing up?  Do your parents even like dogs?  Just some thoughts.  I'm 
>> glad
>> you are taking a firm stand with them, and I sure hope they will come
>> around.  Who knows, maybe there will come a day when they love your dog 
>> and
>> can't imagine when you didn't have one.
>>
>> AnnaLisa and Sundance
>>
>>
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