[nagdu] Dog Schools

[Larry D. Keeler]

Sorry I was thinking of Seeing Eye and the books and the fact a couple of my 
friends went there.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tracy Carcione" <carcione at access.net>
To: "NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users" 
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Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2011 10:41 AM
Subject: Re: [nagdu] Dog Schools


> Larry, I don't know of any school that has a dress code.  Do you? Seeing
> Eye used to, a long time ago, but that's ancient history.  My dog is from
> TSE, and I've had dogs from GDB before him.  Both places asked us to wear
> something "nice" to lunch, when visitors were possibly joining us. I
> expect clean jeans would have qualified; I prefer skirts myself, so didn't
> try it, but didn't ever hear of someone being sent back upstairs to change
> clothes.
> As for workouts, we were free to wear whatever we wanted.  I remember a
> trainer at GDB laughing at my pale non-Californian legs when I wore
> shorts.  "Two extra white lines on the road!"  I was much amused.  And
> kept wearing shorts, anyway.
> So, if any school still has a dress code, I'd like to know who.
> Tracy
>
>
>> Steve, I don't think that Marion was trying to do that iether.  When
>> talking about dog schools, I think of Pilot first because I'm familiar
>> with that school.  My earlier comment about Pilot and shepherds was
>> admitedly based on only a couple of sheperds I met there.  Then, I
>> remembered Steve Hoyt bringing a shepherd to our 2008 and 2010 vendor
>> fairs and I was impressed with him!  The only school that I talked to 
>> that
>> I got a bad feeling from was Seeing Eye but not because of the dog
>> interaction but because of the representative who was selling the school.
>> This is not to say that the school was bad but I don't think that
>> particular rep was into selling the school.  Well, I also got a bad
>> feeling from Desert dogs when I called them and they couldn't fund my
>> transportation and complained about losing costumers and funding.  But
>> even that school has alumni that had good experiences there!  When I
>> looked for a school, I was looking for certain things that dropped out
>> most of the l
>>  esser known schools.  I was left with all the well known schools and
>> really it came down to the poodles and the schooll that had the least
>> restrictions.  I am blind but I don't have to be the best of the best or
>> give my underware size to the school while applying.  I don't have to
>> work a dog in dress clothes to be good!  I don't have to learn life
>> skills lik how to properly eat, use a gps or any other small thing that
>> sighted folks think we should learn to be "the pretty blind".  I wanted a
>> poodle, learned to pick up poop and all the other issues connected with
>> dogs and there behavior in tank tops and shorts, with good walking shoes!
>>  It was in the mid ninties almost every day when I was in Columbus!  Yes,
>> I did have nice clothes and did use them when appropriate!  Intelligence
>> is always claimed but rarely proven!
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