[nagdu] to Tatyana

[Pickrell, Rebecca M (TASC)]

Tatiana,
If you want a good cane skills course, do talk to Leader Dogs.
Theirs is excellent and lasts a week.

As for a dog, you will have access issues and you can choose to ignore it or fight it. That's up to you.

You also don't have to go to a new place every day or even every week with a dog. It isn't clear to me if you want to go to new places, or if you think you should.  Figure that out so you know what it is.

I'll say from experience that thinking "I need to get out with my dog" can be it's own level of stress when you have a sick kid, you're overtired and/or the weather is miserable.

None of us want our dogs to be attacked. We also don't want our loved ones to die, move away, get sick or end a relationship with us. Still, we all love and enjoy the experience.


-----Original Message-----
From: nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Tatyana
Sent: Friday, September 02, 2011 3:57 PM
To: NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users
Subject: Re: [nagdu] to Tatyana

Hello Marilyn,
I don't know whether  I like dogs or not, I don't have one to know. I don't
like cats. I had a small dog when I was a child, someone killed our dog and
for many years I felt that was the only doggy love in my life. I'm not an
advanced cane user. I thought with a dog I could do trips from my town to
D.C. and use subway and go any place I never went before. But an improving
my   mobility skills  using a cane may be a better  option. If I could get
more training in some advanced programs of NFB or something, I don't know
what programs are available, but any way may be I need to pay more attention
to my cane using skills.With a dog, I would get a companion and loved being.
I don't care responsibilities like  cleaning a house, grooming and feeding a
dog, but I care smell of my clothing from a dog. I don't want a dog be
aggressively attacked. I don't want argue with attendance in public places.
And I don't want to ruin a job   of many people not training a dog myself,
if I don't take a dog to unfamiliar locations for example, so its  working
abilities may be lost. I don't work and I need to go to unknown places not
often. But from other hand it may be because I don't have a dog.
Tatyana.

----- Original Message -----
From: "marilyn" <t21114 at optonline.net>
To: "nagdu" <nagdu at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Friday, September 02, 2011 1:21 PM
Subject: [nagdu] to Tatyana


> Hi Tatyana,
> I think for everyone its a personal decision about getting a guide dog.
> First and foremost you must love dogs and be willing to be responsible
> caring for one.
> If you can private email me I would like to talk further to you. Also
> about Russia
> Marilyn and Anna
> T21114 at optonline.net
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