[nagdu] Guide Dog Handler Bill of Rights

[Peggy]

With Se, once you leave the school with that dog it's yours to do what you 
wish with, hopefully work it.  But when it retires, no matter when that is, 
you can choose to keep him/her or give him/her to a friend or family, or 
send him/her back to SE.  When I gave up my first dog, a yellow lab, that 
was having some definate anxiety issues, I had only worked her for a year 
and a half ... I could have kept her, given her to someone ... what I chose 
to do was send her back to SE to see if they could work with her and maybe 
she could continue guide dog work.  She did retire and they notified me that 
she could not be retrained and even asked if I wanted her back as a pet. 
Just thought I'd share because I saw at the end of the post you said you 
weren't sure if after a short time they'd still let you keep the dog ... at 
least I thought that's what you meant.



-----Original Message----- 
From: Cindy Ray
Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2011 4:00 PM
To: NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users
Subject: Re: [nagdu] Guide Dog Handler Bill of Rights

If you get a dog at TSE and within the first year you find that the dog is 
not working out for you, they will replace it and apply the fee to the next 
dog and call it an adjustment. In such a case, it would be only right for 
you to return the dog to them. Jordan's is the only story I have ever heard 
of a repossession, and I suspect there is more to the story that we don't 
know and probably don't have a right to know, but it seems like aserioius 
allegation given that this is not their policy and the dog is yours upon 
leaving the school. To say they don't care is really what you perceive, many 
of the rest of us do not see that. When I hae not been able to continue with 
a dog (and I two such within a year's period that had to return) I would 
never have found the dog a home but, rather, would hve wanted to return it 
there for their evaluation. The two with which I experienced it were 
retired, far as I know, and the one I had for two years and returned, I did 
because I thought he might be a better fit for someone else. I think I could 
have given him away if I had wanted to. Never tested out this theory.


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