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[Tami Kinney]

Rebecca,

I've been playing catch up since slightly before your post and was
thrilled to see that other people were on the spot to explain where
you're coming from and how valuable your observations can be. I
certainly agree with that and am glad so many of your old friends who
know you said what I was about to say anyway. /grin/

It's been fun getting to know all the new posters lately, but easy to
forget that they are still getting to know us old timers on the
list. /smile/ So don't worry! Any day now, I'm going to blurt out some
horrifically heretical thing I do with my owner-trained poodle that just
does not conform to guide dog school practices and rules... Like finding
a nice hiking trail where I can let her go off leash while I follow her
jingle and use my cane to find obstacles. Or, well, Just taking her
across the street to the park to the off leash areas to play with other
dogs, or ... Who knows what else a rebel like me is likely to get up
to? /lol/ At work as a guide dog team, we strive to meet the same
standards of professionalism and etiquette the schools train both dogs
and handlers to achieve, for the same reasons. But there are some of the
off duty practices and rules that I have done differently by choice with
my individual dog, knowing the risks and weighting them against the
benefit... And I've had the luxury of training her to mitigate the
risks, some of them anyway, and learned to find places where other major
risks are greatly lessened or not present... Since she was a pup. So
there are things I do with her in our leisure time that I would not do
with a program dog out of respect for the training and work that went
into making that dog available for me. 

But sometimes I forget that not everybody is aware that I'm talking my
own dog, my own efforts in training, my own expenses, etc., etc., so I
toss off little things that shock people who are thinking in terms of a
program bred, raised and trained dog. /smile/

Tami

On Mon, 2011-08-15 at 12:29 +0000, Pickrell, Rebecca M (TASC) wrote: 
> Yup, I had two of them. I take it some of you were displeased with my post? 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Sheila Leigland
> Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2011 11:19 PM
> To: NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users
> Subject: Re: [nagdu] NAGDU List
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> Hi rebecdca has had a dog previously.
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