[nagdu] State Convention

Wed Nov 9 17:00:31 UTC 2011

That sounds like a hard way of learning!  But I guess after messing up your 
legs for awhile it sinks in!
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tami Kinney" <tamara.8024 at comcast.net>
To: "NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users" 
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Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2011 8:58 AM
Subject: Re: [nagdu] State Convention


> Sheila,
>
> Bruises, I have discovered, are a good incentive to learn to stop when the 
> dog stops so you don't get anymore. /lol/ Or to zig when your dog does 
> instead of zagging into the pole she was leading you around. Even if you 
> managed to avoid the bruises, you can always experience public 
> embarrassment until you learn to follow the dog. /lol/ I have also noticed 
> that my dog does much better work when I actually follow her. Coincidence? 
> Ha! /lol/
>
> Well, as a backcountry, mountain ranch kid, I learned the secret to 
> equitation that applies here, too. The key to keeping oneself in one piece 
> is not to keep the horse between you and the ground, but to know how to 
> land when the horse removes itself. /lol/ Sometimes, knowing when to 
> remove oneself from the horse mid bolt because you know how to land can be 
> a real good thing, too. /lol/ So I have lots of practice for zipping along 
> at poodle speed, having managed only a sprained ankel as the worst 
> consequence of not stopping when the dog did. Whew! Actually, I like 
> poodle speed, because I need to focus more on my center of gravity  -- as 
> I did in equitation -- to keep up and move with her. So it's like a dance 
> and very like that unity of movement I love in riding. I am also more 
> motivated to pay attention not to run into stuff by not following my dog, 
> since it would hurt a lot more at our favorite fast clip. It's when we 
> slow down to walk with the strolling crowd that we get into trouble. /lol/
>
> Tami
>
> On 11/08/2011 12:38 PM, Sheila Leigland wrote:
>> 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 a
> n
>> d neat!
>>> Intelligence is always claimed but rarely proven!
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