[nagdu] pupp sitters

Tue Jun 29 18:30:34 UTC 2010

Julie,
Glad you're feeling better and up and running.  Or, uh, soldiering on,
anyway.  When you get tempted to kick it into high gear to do just one more
thing you *have* to do, just remember: if you take it slow now, you'll get
back to full health faster.

Enjoy!

Tami Smith-Kinney

-----Original Message-----
From: nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
Of Julie J
Sent: Monday, June 28, 2010 5:38 AM
To: NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users
Subject: Re: [nagdu] pupp sitters

Tami,

It will be hard to leave Monty behind, but it is definitely the right thing 
to do.  The saga of my accident a few weeks ago is still continuing.  I'm 
not sure that I'm going to have the energy to run, run, run like I have at 
past conventions.  I'm planning on taking it easy, which is yet another 
reason that it's probably better that Monty stays here.  I thought about 
canceling my plans to go, but I've been looking forward to this for a long 
while and so has Kiddo.

Even without my low energy and pain, there is no way that I could possibly 
go to everything I wanted to or meet up with everyone I had hoped to.  This 
will be my fourth convention and it hasn't happened yet! *smile*

Julie

----- 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: Sunday, June 27, 2010 4:24 PM
Subject: Re: [nagdu] pupp sitters

> Julie,
>
> Thanks for sharing that information.  I knew you were debating, and tha 
> tas
> an owner-trainer you would have to find non-guide-dog-expert boarding.
> /smile/  To be honest, had I known what I know now, I would have left 
> Mitzi
> behind for my first convention, when she was about Monty's age and
> experience.  /smile/  To be honest, I was really, really relieved to
> determine over the few weeks after I got home that I hadn't managed to 
> ruin
> the poor, teender, newly "gratduated" poodle child by that little piece of
> misjudement.  Whew!  Still, we did both learn a lot, if not what we had
> planned on (I talked it all over with her, of course, and I'm sure she was
> up on the plan).  We ended up not meeting many, many of the people we had
> planned to meet, but we met a lot of random great people anyway, so it's 
> not
> like it was a wash....  Still, if I'd known then...  /smile/
>
> I think the beauty of a smaller town is that you have a better chance of
> *knowing* the people you're leaving your newly minted owner-trained guide
> dog with.  Well, I've spent enough time at the dog park with my high 
> energy
> girl to know people who occasionally board their dogs, so I get really 
> good
> information from them about various options.  I was really surprised when 
> I
> started looking into it for future reference that the prices even for the
> close-to-downtown neighborhood I used to live in were not any more than 
> what
> you quote.  Weird, huh?  They're actually more out here in the 'burbs (or
> weird cross between 'burbs and boonies that is Aloha).  So is grooming!
> Yikes!
>
> Anyway, I am decision free for another year, but I always like hearing how
> other people decide when it comes to dogs and convention.  I always start 
> on
> the assumption that I will be going next year, with Mitzi.  Well, the
> current "next year" she will be 5, and she's already a completely 
> different
> dog (the same dog, but better) than she was at barely 2...  After living
> through Mitzi at 1, she seemed super duper mature at 2.  /lol/  Now I 
> know!
>
> Have fun at convention!  I wish I could see you -- and a whole lot of 
> other
> people -- there again.  But there's always next year...  /grin/
>
> Tami Smith-Kinney
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
> Of Julie J
> Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2010 8:31 AM
> To: NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users
> Subject: Re: [nagdu] pupp sitters
>
> Marsha,
>
> Thank you so much for posting this!  I have also decided to leave Monty
> behind while I attend convention.  It was not an easy decision and I 
> wavered
>
> back and forth for weeks.
>
> He will be staying with a woman who does boarding in her home.  So there
> will be several dogs that are allowed to run freely together, pending they
> are able to play nicely! *smile*  Monty has stayed there several times and
> loves it.  She charges $10 per night.  I provide dog food and take his
> crate.
>
> The vet here also does boarding.  They will provide food if you don't mind
> what they feed or you can take your own, but there isn't a discount.  They
> charge $8.50 per night.  This is the one dog, one kennel, no mixing, 
> little
> individual attention sort of scenario.
>
> I have also hired a pet sitter in the past.  I paid her $4 per visit. 
> Each
> visit was approx 20 minutes and I would have her come as many times a day 
> as
>
> I needed.  So if I was working unexpected hours that day I could just have
> her come once.  The pet sitter was pre-guide dog.
>
> BTW I live in a very small town in the mid west.  From what I have heard
> from others the prices here are very low.
>
> HTH
> Julie
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Marsha Drenth" <marsha.drenth at gmail.com>
> To: "'NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users'"
> <nagdu at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2010 10:07 AM
> Subject: [nagdu] pupp sitters
>
>
>> Hello listers,
>>
>>
>>
>> In a little over a week, my guide will be staying with a pup sitter while
>> I
>> attend the national convention. The pup sitter is a former sitter for the
>> school I received my pup from. She will be watching Emma for 10 days. So
>> here is my question, What is the going rate for kenneling a pup? Or for
>> pup
>> sitters? I have explained to her that I am by no means rich, but would
>> like
>> to pay her something. Kenneling is very expensive, so I know it has to be
>> way under that. Any ideas please let me know. If you feel more 
>> comfortable
>> emailing me off list, please do at marsha.drenth at gmail.com
>>
>>
>>
>> Thank you,
>>
>> marsha
>>
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