[nagdu] dog adaptability and expectations

[Melissa Green]

Hmm, I thought that all of the Nfb centers are required to allow guide dog 
users to attend.


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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "cheryl echevarria" <cherylandmaxx at hotmail.com>
To: "NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users" 
<nagdu at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2010 7:26 AM
Subject: Re: [nagdu] dog adaptability and expectations


> Question here, Blind Inc. doesn't allow guide dogs?
>
> Cheryl Echevarria
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>  ----- Original Message ----- 
>  From: Martha Harris<mailto:latinanewschic at gmail.com>
>  To: nagdu at nfbnet.org<mailto:nagdu at nfbnet.org>
>  Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2010 10:11 PM
>  Subject: [nagdu] dog adaptability and expectations
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>
>  Hi Everyone,
>  I have been working with my lab Dee since November of last year, and in 
> May, I will have her for six months. I am going to BLIND Inc. where she 
> will be crated for 7-8 hours per day. However, I will walk as often as I 
> can to the center, which is 1.3 miles or so each way, plus work in the 
> evenings and on weekends. Many guide dog users say I will "ruin the dog," 
> and it is not good to make a dog change routine so drastically because it 
> takes six months to a year to become solid. However, I think learning the 
> discovery method will help us be a more solid team because I will be able 
> to travel with confidence to familiar and unfamiliar places. Is it 
> expectations preached by the guide dog schools because they don't believe 
> blind people can handle sudden change? Is it that some guide dog users 
> have less confidence in themselves and don't believe change is good for 
> them or their dogs, or am I way off base thinking like this?
>
>  Martha
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