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

Linda Gwizdak linda.gwizdak at cox.net
Sat Jul 3 21:36:31 UTC 2010


Amen to that!!!

Lyn and Landon
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From: "Tamara Smith-Kinney" <tamara.8024 at comcast.net>
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> 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
>
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> 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
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> 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
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>> 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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