[nagdu] elements of class, matching and escaping

[Cindy Ray]

Just go off in your red convertible with the radio going full force. <Giggle>

On Feb 1, 2011, at 6:46 PM, Tamara Smith-Kinney wrote:

> 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
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
> Of Cindy Ray
> 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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