[nagdu] attachment or anxiety separation

[Sherry Gomes]

I experience the same thing.  I'm single and I never left my retired guide
alone, when she was my active working dog.  I just never needed to leave
her.  When she retired, I was working in a different job than I am now, away
from home 8 to 10 hours a day, so she went to live with her raisers.  well,
now I work from home, and her raisers felt she was unhappy with them,
because they were gone so much, so she came back.  I have my current guide
and my retired guide, and I feel horribly guilty every time I go out with
Olga and leave Bianca home alone.  Silly, I know, she's used to it after two
and  a half years of retirement, but she's only been back with me for six
months.  If I go to a place like pet smart with friends I bring her too, and
we try to go to my friends home where she can run in their yard.  I also
have local puppy raisers and others who take her for walks, but for me, I
still feel guilty whenever I leave her alone.

Sherry


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Of Criminal Justice Major Extraordinaire
Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2011 7:55 AM
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Subject: [nagdu] attachment or anxiety separation

Hi, all,
Have any of you felt that big attachment toward your retired guide dog and 
experienced anxiety separation?
It seems like I've been experiencing that lately and was hoping I wouldn't 
be the only one.
I've found myself feeling all of that, especially when Odie is left at home.
On Saturday, Dale and I went to see a Cinderrella play live that my step 
sister Sarah was in.
It was held in the theater inside the King Center on Auraria campus and 
total amount of people was probably four hundred.
There was no way that Odie was probably going to handle it, so the hard 
decision was to leave him at home for me at least.
While Dale and I were out with family, that's when it all hit me.
Yesterday was a different story however.
Odie was in his medical alert service dog vest walking with my husband.
I was using my support cane and walking ahead of the two men slowly and 
carefully.
Odie began to move faster upon trying to bolt out in front of me.
I think he still felt that he needed to be my eyes and was concerned that I 
was going to get hurt.
I'm in the process of getting a new fold up white cane through Ambutech.
unfortunately I had lost my current one, especially after the convulsive 
grandmal seizures I dealt with two months in a row.
Thankfully, my husband told me he'd happily be my eyes until I can get my 
replacement folding cane and be matched with a successor partner.
Bibi 


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