[nagdu] Not all equal

Fri Apr 20 19:33:28 UTC 2012

See how you are Lea!  You let your Jaws get out of control!!!
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lea williams" <leanicole1988 at gmail.com>
To: "NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users" 
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Sent: Friday, April 20, 2012 2:59 PM
Subject: Re: [nagdu] Not all equal


> lol, i just sent that without editing. I messed up and my jaws whent
> nuts after coming back from another thing. sorry.
>
> On 4/20/12, Lea williams <leanicole1988 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I like to get appinions from a lot of different people because even if
>> everyone, or most of them, said that there school was the best, you
>> can still gather a good deal of information from it all to find out
>> which one is best for you.
>>
>> Best for you.
>> What is best for me might be different for you. I know this guy here
>> in my town who went to a different school than I am going to. He tried
>> to get me to go to his and told me his was the best. It might be for
>> im but, I chose the one I am going to because they work for me the
>> best. I also through a coupld of schools out because I did not like
>> the impretion the schools gave me when I called them to ask about them
>> more. One school, the person who answered, went on and on about how
>> the other schools were aweful, so i emetitly took that one off of my
>> list.
>> I wished that I could go and check out the actual schools to see how
>> they are. Things like the way the dogs are trained, I am not meaning
>> what they are trained, but how they are kindled, how much play time
>> they get and all means a lot to me. I would not want to go to a school
>> that keeps their dogs locked up all the time. There are a lot I look
>> in to and think about. I like to hear the good and the bad of the
>> school I am going to because, not any of the schools is perfect, and I
>> believe that knowing the good and the bad can help with so many
>> things. I also know that listening to what someone says
>>
>> On 4/20/12, Tracy Carcione <carcione at access.net> wrote:
>>> Hannah said the other day that she was starting to wonder if all the
>>> schools were equal, or something to that effect.
>>> I don't think they are all equal.  One can get a great dog from all of
>>> them, and one can get a rotten dog from all of them, but I am convinced
>>> that one has a better probability of getting a great dog at some more
>>> than
>>> others.  We can disagree on which are best, of course.  Me, I feel
>>> confident that I have a high probability of success with GDB or TSE.
>>> Steve
>>> would say Leader, and Jeanine would say GDF.  Everyone has an opinion.
>>> Further, different schools offer different things.  I want a dog who 
>>> does
>>> excellent traffic work.  I wouldn't accept a dog if we hadn't had at
>>> least
>>> 2 or 3 traffic checks in class.  My dogs have saved my butt too many
>>> times
>>> from cars I didn't hear until the dog had already done his or her stuff.
>>> And some schools have a more robust follow-up.  Some of the small ones
>>> can
>>> only do phone follow-up for people outside their area.  Some people are
>>> fine with that, and some want the option of having a trainer come in
>>> person to help with serious problems.  I'm in the latter category.  I
>>> remember a time when it was hard to get GDB out to New York to help me,
>>> and I've always wondered if it might have made a difference with the dog
>>> I
>>> had to retire early.  Probably not, but I was glad when something 
>>> changed
>>> and they were able to send someone out more quickly.
>>> I just wanted to say this, for the benefit of people considering getting
>>> a
>>> dog, and for first-timers having a hard time.  We have to be inclusive
>>> and
>>> accepting of everyone.  An arrogant, "my school is the only good one"
>>> attitude is extremely annoying.  I know that firsthand--quite a few TSE
>>> graduates have that attitude, and it annoys the heck out of me.
>>> But I'm still convinced that some schools are better than others.  I
>>> don't
>>> know how to measure it, and I may even be wrong, since others' opinions
>>> as
>>> to which is best differ from mine, and that's fine.  Maybe the only way
>>> to
>>> choose is to ask a lot of questions, and talk to people, and read the
>>> list. But choosing a school by whichever one accepts the application
>>> first, or by which one has the rare breed one fancies, or by which one 
>>> is
>>> located in an area one would like to visit, might not always be the best
>>> method, though of course dumb chance sometimes works out fine. I chose
>>> GDB
>>> my first time because a friend and I visited it, and I liked the vibe. 
>>> I
>>> liked the campus, and the people we talked to.  Not much to go on, but 
>>> it
>>> worked out. But we didn't have the internet then, for better or worse.
>>> Tracy
>>>
>>>
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>>
>>
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>>
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