[nagdu] State Convention

Sheila Leigland sleigland at bresnan.net
Tue Nov 8 23:27:04 UTC 2011


Oh how true that must be. Sometimes I wish I could see my dog's face. I don't have any vision.

Sheila Leigland

-----Original Message-----
From: Larry D. Keeler <lkeeler at comcast.net>
Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2011 3:29 PM
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Subject: Re: [nagdu] State Convention

The funnest thing is how you're dog looks at you!  You wonder just how 
stupid she thinks I am!!
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sheila Leigland" <sleigland at bresnan.net>
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Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2011 5:09 PM
Subject: Re: [nagdu] State Convention


> Yep you sure can get lost with a dog. It's a little more fun with a dog 
> though but not much. I hate getting lost.
>
> Sheila Leigland
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Larry D. Keeler <lkeeler at comcast.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2011 2:01 PM
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> 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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>> <nagdu at nfbnet.org>
>> 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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