[nagdu] State Convention

[Larry D. Keeler]

Yah, and you sure can still get lost with a dog!  The folks I braught to 
convention left me and ran off to lunch so I went later as well.  On the way 
back, there were no sidewalks and I got really lost!  It took me 45 minutes 
to get back and I think Holly was calling me a big dummy all the way back!
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sheila Leigland" <sleigland at bresnan.net>
To: "NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users" 
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Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2011 3:38 PM
Subject: Re: [nagdu] State Convention


> Tami I have been stupid a time or two with a dog. When I was in training 
> with my first dog, he would stop at those parking things that are supposed 
> to slow down cars and I didn't for a total of theree times I finally 
> figured out that when my dog stopped maybe it would be a good thing to do 
> the same. I also got tired of the bruises. My trainer told me I was 
> learning to fall graciously. One after coming home with my dog he stopped 
> at a bunch of steps and my son who was with us said dah your dog stopped 
> mom. That one would have been a long way down.
>
> Sheila Leigland
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tami Kinney <tamara.8024 at comcast.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2011 12:52 PM
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> Subject: Re: [nagdu] State Convention
>
> Yeah, it's a real hoot romping around with cane users and your guide
> dog. /lol/ Especially when everybody likes to experiment and compare
> notes and find new and clever ways of dealing with ordinary O&M
> problems. Er... Unless you happen to be the cane user who gets excited
> over a new technique and starts using it on the fly without learning to
> adjust for it first. Ouch! Well, one way to learn how to use a new
> technique to avoid obstacles is to run into one a full tilt. The
> advantage of being the dog user in such a free wheeling crowd is that
> your dog has more sense and will not allow you to get hurt from your own
> stupidity. /lol/
>
> Tami 11/07/2011 06:50 PM, Larry D. Keeler wrote:
>> Yah, this sort of appropriat for this list.  Our state convention was in 
>> Kalamazoo last weekend.  Three members from our chapter went to Kalamazoo 
>> by train.  While there I introduced the idea of forming a guide dog 
>> division like many of y'all have in New York for instancee.  I may very 
>> well have enough interest as well!  But, that is not what this is about! 
>> My 2 friends are cane users so I sort of wondered what it might be like 
>> to work cane and dog together as a team.  Not me with a cane in my hand 
>> and also a dog but using what the dog knows in tandem with what can be 
>> found with the cane.  It was pretty fun!  I would have the cane folks 
>> find which driveway we were supposed to go up and then I would have them 
>> follow me when I told Holly to find in! They did the shore lining and I 
>> did the door finding.  Also, when I was in front I could tell them when 
>> something was coming up and which way to veer so they didn't bang it. 
>> Using both skills in a group was really interesting an
> d neat!
>> Intelligence is always claimed but rarely proven!
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