[nagdu] Eye Dog Foundation.

[GARY STEEVES]

Hi Tami:

Yes, Gide Dogs of the Desert was the other school that had accepted me. If I hadn't got Bogart  from Guide Dogs Canada I had been accepted at GDD for a fall class last year. I feel I did as good research as I could and thought it would be an interesting school to attend and heard good things about their trainers and training program.

If/when I need or want another dog I think it is the school that I will most likely focus on unless the options for poodles has increased by that time.

Gary

----- Original Message -----
From: Tami Kinney <tamara.8024 at comcast.net>
Date: Wednesday, August 17, 2011 6:51 am
Subject: Re: [nagdu] Eye Dog Foundation.
To: nagdu at nfbnet.org

> Yes, I was surprised to learn that there is a young shepherd 
> from Guide
> Dogs of the Desert right here in town. They're in Palm Springs, but
> there is that other dessert dog school in California in Silmar 
> Larry has
> mentioned. Don't know a thing about them, but the few people 
> here in
> Oregon who have heard of them get them confused with Guide Dogs 
> of the
> Desert, so now I'm just confused. /smile/ Anyway, there are a 
> bunch of
> handlers here with poodles, doodles and other breeds from Guide 
> Dogs of
> the Desert, and they are all very happy with heir dogs and 
> trainers. So
> I'm learning more and wondering which of the 'oodle dogs might 
> be kin to
> Mitzi. /smile/
> 
> They also provide home training out here, so my ears are perked 
> up over
> that. The shepherd is lovely, too lovely, and quite a character, I
> guess, from the stories her handler tells on her or writes from her
> point of view. /smile/ Reminds me a bit of Mitzi sometimes in 
> her social
> interaction, since nobody almost catches on that she's one of those
> dangerous mean police dogs. /lol/ I guess when you go around 
> town with
> everybody smiling and cooing because you're just so darned cute, it's
> going to go to your head. /lol/ I wouldn't know myself, being 
> just a
> geeky sidekick to my own glamor girl.
> 
> Anyway, I was pleased to discover now that I'm crawling out from under
> my rock that there are dogs from GDD here and that the school is doing
> well. 
> 
> Tami
> 
> On Mon, 2011-08-15 at 18:47 -0700, Tina Thomas wrote: 
> > Hi Deanna- I would suggest to your friend to check out The 
> Seeing Eye and
> > Guide Dogs of the Desert. Both schools train GSD'S. 
> > Tina      
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nagdu-
> bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
> > Of Deanna Lewis
> > Sent: Sunday, August 14, 2011 4:26 PM
> > To: nagdu at nfbnet.org
> > Subject: [nagdu] Eye Dog Foundation.
> > 
> > Hi, 
> > Sorry I haven't posted in a while. Howdy to everyone!.Hope you 
> all are doing
> > well.
> > I am Deanna, and I live in Ohio with my 4 year old black lab, 
> named Pascal.
> > I am also chair of the Ohio Association of Guide Dog Users. A 
> person in
> > Oagdu is retiring his current dog, and he wants his next guide 
> dog to be a
> > German Shepherd. He is strongly considering the Eye Dog 
> Foundation, which I
> > had never heard of.before. They only offer German Shepherds. 
> Does anyone on
> > here know any good (or bad) things about this school? Thanks 
> for any advice.
> > Deanna and Pascal
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