[nagdu] State Convention

Thu Nov 10 00:12:13 UTC 2011

I have been accused of having a rather thick skull!  Even my dog thinks I 
might catch on one of these days!
----- 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: Wednesday, November 09, 2011 5:19 PM
Subject: Re: [nagdu] State Convention


> Yes, not the way I would now acvise. But oh well I hope I have developed 
> some brains since then. Ha ha.
>
> Sheila Leigland
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Larry D. Keeler <lkeeler at comcast.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2011 10:00 AM
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> <nagdu at nfbnet.org>
> Subject: Re: [nagdu] State Convention
>
> 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"
> <nagdu at nfbnet.org>
> 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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