[nagdu] elements of class, matching and escaping

[Tamara Smith-Kinney]

Yeah, I like the idea of popping out for a bit of R&R out on the town in the
evenings after a hard day's training...  I have a feeling my reality would
be a bit of R&R zonked out on the sofa in front of the TV.  /lol/  Or on the
floor snuggling my new dog is more like 

The freedom to shoose it the important thing, I guess.  And the tricky part
is finding a balance between the needs of the program and its training, the
needs of the individual, and the needs of the other students...  

I'm liking some of the specifics people are coming up with, as well as some
of the philosophies.  So I'll go back to pondering the wisdom of others,
since I haven't come up with any of my own.  /smle/

Tami Smith-Kinney

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Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2011 3:33 PM
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Subject: Re: [nagdu] elements of class, matching and escaping

Well, at TSE you don't leave campus, though I'm not sure that you can't if
om;pany comes and they want you to go somewhere with them. But the Saturday
Sunday afternoon visitors are from 1:30 or so until feeding time. That is a
little hospital-ish, I'd guess, but it doesn't bother me so much. One time
when I was there I had guests each weekend, and I began to wish I did not.
They say that they want you to have as much time as possible with your dogs;
it's not about your being adults or not, I think, though I suspect the day
will come when this will change up some. Who knows. But the time I had the
guests so many times, I began to wish I weren't having them. LOL. I really
needed down time. I loved seeing the people though. And certainly sometimes
weekends get a little long though, especially if you aren't in the
accelerated class. Anyway, I'll give it more thought.

I do like the meeting with dogs. TSE started that around the time I got
Spencer, shortly before 1998, I think, and I really do think that it is a
great experience and could say a lot.



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