[nagdu] Guide Dog Handler Bill of Rights

[Jordan Gallacher]

All I told TSE was that I was looking for a home for him and I was not
having any success.  I never asked for them to come take the dog and find
him a home.  Oddly enough, no one told me about that first year thing.  That
should have been what happen since it was quite obvious that he wasn't going
to work properly after running into a car.
Jordan

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