[nagdu] attachment or anxiety separation

[Tami Kinney]

Sherrie,
I'm glad I won't be the only to feel guilty when it's time to leave
retired Mitzi home as I breeze off with a new guide dog. /smile/  That's
a long way ahead for us, but I already know the one who is going to have
the problem there is me. /smile/ I have a feeling she will be perfectly
happy by then to be her daddy's dog nd leave the guiding up to a younger
dog, while she can just hang out and play for a change. /smile/ Me, I'll
give myself a crisis over it., I am certain.

Tami

On Tue, 2011-07-12 at 08:53 -0600, Sherry Gomes wrote:
> 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
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
> 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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