[nagdu] a new guide dog program

[Tamara Smith-Kinney]

Oh, and here I was just feeling cheated that I didn't get mine!  /smile/

I'm sure the only way I survived was all that helpful advice and instruction
so many people went out of their way to give me...  Who needs a book when
you can just take to the sidewalk with a white cane and a completely
untrained poodle pup and find out all you need to know?  /snicker/

Tami Smith-Kinney

-----Original Message-----
From: nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
Of Julie J
Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2011 10:12 AM
To: NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users
Subject: Re: [nagdu] a new guide dog program

Oh, forgot to add...except for the booklet.  Owner training doesn't come 
with a booklet with all those helpful appendixes!

Julie

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tamara Smith-Kinney" <tamara.8024 at comcast.net>
To: "'NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users'" 
<nagdu at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2011 10:29 AM
Subject: Re: [nagdu] a new guide dog program


> Matt,
>
> Yes, it is a joke!  The original message as an excellently done satire 
> based
> on some completely serious ongoing discussions about guide dog programs in
> general and some of their policies and practices.  Because everyone feels 
> so
> strongly about their own program experiences and expectations, these
> discussions can grow heated.
>
> So Julie's original message about the satirical new guide dog program 
> seems
> to have been a good way to give us all a chance to poke fun at ourselves 
> and
> even each other a little by going to extremes of creativity.  Maybe now we
> can also look at the serious side with a fresher perspective?
>
> Also, Julie, like me, is an owner-trainer -- that means she acquired a dog
> and trained it herself.  So she was describing owner-training in the "new
> guide dog program" description.  Except for the price tag!  We pay that in
> time over the course of training our dogs to produce the equivalent of a
> program-trained dog, but the dollar expenses don't add up to what the
> financial reports of the programs state as the cost to produce each dog.
> Which does average out at around $75,000 per successfully trained and
> graduated guide dog.
>
> Anyway, sorry to scare you like that1  /grin/  Welcome to the list.  Are 
> you
> a guide dog user yourself?  Are you looking into becoming one?
>
> I'm working my owner-trained poodle guide Mitzi, who will turn 5 in June.
>
> Tami Smith-Kinney
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
> Of Matt Moran
> Sent: Monday, February 14, 2011 10:20 PM
> To: nagdu at nfbnet.org
> Subject: Re: [nagdu] a new guide dog program
>
> Hi,
>
> Is this a joke?
>
> Please write back.
>
> Matt
>
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