[nagdu] Japanese guide dog teamsRE: My dream is gone

[Tamara Smith-Kinney]

Yeah.  /smile/  I do my civic duty to educate while having fun and watching
that busy little mind at work.  /smile/  Without having to go out and have
one of my own, of course!  /lol/  Love other people's kids.  Then I love to
send them home to mom and dad.  /grin/

Tami Smith-Kinney

-----Original Message-----
From: nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
Of Linda Gwizdak
Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2010 11:46 PM
To: NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users
Subject: Re: [nagdu] Japanese guide dog teamsRE: My dream is gone

Yeah, Tami, kids are so cute at times!  They ask the most interesting 
questions as well when old enough.  they have a natural curiosity and 
capacity to learn.   It is a shame that the adults have to come and ruin 
that!

Tami, that little neighbor tyke will be growing up to be tomorrow's 
businessperson, civic leader - whatever. When they have the opportunity to 
see disabled people, our equipment we use for independence, our service 
dogs, they learn to take disability in stride and will be far less likely to

be afraid of us and they will accept us as the people we are.  A very good 
thing to happen!

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'" 
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Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2010 6:39 PM
Subject: Re: [nagdu] Japanese guide dog teamsRE: My dream is gone


> How sweet, indeed.  I love to see (or peceive) a toddler, watching me the
> cane, then kinda feeling my hand on it, then, very, very seriously, taking
> it and tapping it out in front them with the little brow furrowed in
> concentration ...  Well, random toddlers and little kids do an abbreviated
> version, but the former next door neighbor toodler I still see now and 
> then
> has done a pretty good job of figuring the thing out and how it works for
> me, although every time she takes it -- or takes my hand on it to guide me
> when I visit their house -- I can just tell she's learning more.
>
> She's still a bit baffled when Mitzi is working and the cane is folded up 
> in
> my back pocket, I think.  She much prefers when we're off leash at the 
> park,
> and she can give Mitzi stern orders (Nini! Shee!) then dig treats out of 
> my
> pocket to give Mitzi once I've translated the command into it's proper
> format (Mitzi, sit).  /lol/  I just have to say it in a very low tone, so
> the kiddo gets a total kick out of the whole thing.  Mitzi always seems to
> know exactly what's going on and to be as amused by it as I am.  I can 
> swear
> she rolls her eyes, though, every time she hears a piping, yet stern voice
> say, "Nini! Shee!").  Too cool for words.
>
> Tami Smith-Kinney
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
> Of Pickrell, Rebecca M (TASC)
> Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2010 12:21 PM
> To: NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users
> Subject: Re: [nagdu] Japanese guide dog teamsRE: My dream is gone
>
> Lol on the gal holding the guy's belt loop.
> How are things?
> Linda's posts have gotten weirder by the minute.
> Mellie took her cane to school today so she could "use it all day like
> Mommy" So sweet.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Dan Weiner
> Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2010 3:14 PM
> To: 'NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users'
> Subject: [nagdu] Japanese guide dog teamsRE: My dream is gone
>
> Interesting about the Asian lady.
> It doesn't surprise me having been in Japan and seeing similar
> couples--smile.
> I also did meet more active handlers so I suppose to each his or her
> own.
> One bizarre thing, well, bizarre for me--smile--is that one school over
> there trains a guide dog to work with a married couple.
> Either the guy takes the dog sometimes and the gal another, or they
> walk,
> the guy with the dog and the girl with her hand looped in the guys belt,
> walking behind him,  actually that one sounds sort of romantic to me
> though
> I don't know how efficient it is--smile.
> The reason given is the supposed lack of space for two in quotes, big,
> dogs.
> I say in quotes because the Japanese guide dogs I met weren't really big
> by
> my standard and I like big labs and so on.
> They were small mostly yellow labs, almost exclusively, and cute, maybe
> fifty-five to sixty-five pounds.
>
> Anyway, that was a propos of nothing, just that you mentioned a Japanese
> lady with a guide dog--smile
>
> Cordially,
>
> Dan W. and the Carter Nutt
>
>
>
>
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