[nagdu] Dalmatians

Wed May 5 17:02:52 UTC 2010

Well, Daisy the Tennessee Treeing Walker Coonhound is just dying to get into
Mitzi's harness and go...  But not to be calm, attentive or solid in
temperament.  /lol/  Suddenly imagine her at that fireworks display makes my
ears hurt.  She *would* be the loudest thing there.  /lol/

Tami Smith-Kinney

-----Original Message-----
From: nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
Of Julie J
Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2010 6:06 PM
To: NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users
Subject: Re: [nagdu] Dalmatians

Jewel,

My first guide dog, who was an experiment to see if I could train a guide 
dog, was a Tennessee Treeing Walker Coonhound.

Nope, not your typical breed.  I wouldn't go out of my way to choose that 
breed, but she worked out well.  She is the only Coonhound I have spent much

time with, but everything everyone has ever told me about Coonhounds leads 
me to believe she was the exception.  She was exceptionally calm, attentive 
and had the most solid temperament of any dog I have ever known.  I 
literally took her to a fireworks display with 75,000 people, marching 
bands, food all over, lots of little kids mobbing her and every other 
imaginable distraction.  She was fine and enjoyed herself.

The Seeing Eye has trained and placed Salukis in the past.  While not a 
greyhound, it is a sighthound and very close to a greyhound.

Belle, my retired guide, is most likely part greyhound.  Granted she didn't 
work out so well in the long term.  Don't know if that is breed specific 
problems or just a Belle wasn't meant to be a guide dog thing.  I do know of

people who use greyhounds as other types of service dogs.

Anyway just idle musings.
Julie

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jewel S." <herekittykat2 at gmail.com>
To: "NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users" 
<nagdu at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2010 6:22 PM
Subject: Re: [nagdu] Dalmatians

> Sounds like Lavo's a great dog. Focus is a good characteristic in a
> guide dog, though some people take that focus as being antisocial or
> unfriendly...I think that's just silly. I would consider a dobbie as a
> guide dog if s/he was offered to me as a match. I dont know if I would
> match myself with a dobbie, though. I'm more of a lab type.
>
> I think there are only a few breeds of medium-sized dogs that can't
> work as service animals, or specifically as guide dogs. Specifically,
> I would never want to see a geryhound in a harness. Nor would I like
> to see a beagle in the harness (yes, some beagles can be large enough
> to consider as medium...I had a 40-pound beagle, although she was a
> little fat. She wasn't short, though I don't remember her exact
> height. But a beagle is definitely not a guide dog breed. Beagles have
> powerful noses, as do bloodhounds (not guide dog material either), and
> I would imagine most beagles would be distracted too easily by smells
> and sounds. I don't know if it was just Lucy, but she was always
> wandering off the path to sniff at something, loved to howl at people
> when she saw them, and was too lazy to fetch the frisbee, but would
> meet our other dog halfway back to try to steal it away to make it
> look like *she* got it. *shrug* Just let's not start talking about
> chihuahuas or shih tzus as guide dogs, please! Pocket guide dogs are
> funny, but definitely not practical.
>
> ~Jewel
>
> On 5/4/10, The Pawpower Pack <pawpower4me at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Jewel,
>> Yes I don't have to imagine it because people are very afraid of
>> Laveau.  She is mixed with something else-- some say lab, some say
>> sighthound, but she is black with rust markings on her face and
>> uncropped ears and an undocked tail.  I don't mind that people are
>> afraid of her.  Many more people want to pet my goldens than want to
>> pet Laveau which is fine with me and with her because she is a very
>> focused dog and would sooner not be bothered.  Don't get me wrong, if
>> she gets pets she accepts them; she just doesn't wag and get all
>> excited like a lab or golden.  Well unless it's someone she knows.
>>
>> Rox and the Kitchen Bitches
>> Bristol (retired), Mill'E SD. and Laveau Guide Dog, CGC.
>> "It's wildly irritating to have invented something as revolutionary as
>> sarcasm, only to have it abused by amateurs." -- Christopher Moore
>> pawpower4me at gmail.com
>>
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