[nagdu] State Convention

Larry D. Keeler lkeeler at comcast.net
Wed Nov 9 17:10:46 UTC 2011


That's the poodle talking!  Mine just looks at me like I just escaped from a 
mental institution!  But, when they recognize where you started from they 
often can be of help.  With that poodle you probably get lost quite fast!  I 
hear that generally poodles like to move!
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tami Kinney" <tamara.8024 at comcast.net>
To: "NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users" 
<nagdu at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2011 10:47 AM
Subject: Re: [nagdu] State Convention


> 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"
>> <sleigland at bresnan.net>
>> To: "NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users"
>> <nagdu at nfbnet.org>
>> 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
>>> 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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