[nagdu] State Convention

Wed Nov 9 15:47:39 UTC 2011

Larry,

Experience has taught me that the really big advantage of using a guide 
dog is that you can get more lost much faster than you can with a cane. 
/lol/ Then you get to try to find your way back with your dog loudly 
proclaiming you to be a big dummy all the way. This, I am told, gives me 
dignity.

Mitzi does not appreciate having to put up with my getting us lost. She 
appreciates even less all the back and forth and huffing and puffing as 
I desperately try to figure out where I am and how to get back to where 
I went wrong in the first place. Cramps her style, don't you know. She 
has better things to do with her working time than going around in 
circles and backtracking and then sidetracking then backtracking the 
sidetrack...

She became really good really fast at picking out landmarks and names of 
things I would mutter under my breath about wanting to find and picking 
routes to get there, then arguing with me when I would insist that I am 
the boss so I get to decide which way to turn... When we would finally 
make it back to that point she was very good at saying "I told you so!" 
And she would be very happy that by that time, I was so tired and turned 
around that I would just go along with her decision and end up exactly 
where I had wanted to be even if the only safe route was out of the way 
and counter intuitive. So now, when Mitzi gives me a hint while I'm 
trying to figure out which way to go, I consider that option first as 
the most likely one to get me where I'm going. /lol/

The fact that my dog is very obviously much smarter than I am also gives 
me dignity. Not! /lol/

Tami

On 11/08/2011 01:01 PM, Larry D. Keeler wrote:
> 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"
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> Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2011 3:38 PM
> Subject: Re: [nagdu] State Convention
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>> 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
>> To: NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users
>> <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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