[nagdu] Cool email from Russia's guide dog school

[Laurel]

Hi Vanessa,
Sorry for replying to your message so late, I've been out of town and
away from my computer for a week. I think it's super cool that you
contacted the Russian guide dog school! I was wondering if you would
be so kind as to privately send me their information. I study Russian
at college and have a few blind Russian friends who might be
interested in this. I would also love to contact this school.
Thanks in advance. /grins/
Laurel and Stockard

On 8/15/12, Vanessa Lowery <vlowery at dhr.state.md.us> wrote:
> My family and I will be flying off to Russia soon, so I did some snooping on
> the internet.  I not only found information about a guide dog training
> center in Russia, but they have had such a program since the 1940's.  I
> emailed the school and got a reply back.  I was hoping to possibly visit the
> school since it is relatively close to Moscow, one of the cities we will be
> visiting.
>
> However, the school is in the process of renovating a building they will be
> renting which will serve as offices and facilities for the dogs.  Until it
> is fully ready in Winter, the puppies and dogs in training will stay in
> homes, and the trainers have to do a lot of traveling to pick up the dogs in
> training, work with the dogs, and then transport them back to their homes.
> The training wiht students is done in the home community where each person
> lives.  Right now, they ahve a substantial waiting list.  Also, their dogs
> are trained for eight months.
>
> they invited me to come visit their facility in the winter.  Not likely to
> happen--I'd need more leave time than I will probably have at that time, but
> maybe in the future, I can bop back over to Russia's motherland and take
> them up on their invitation.
>
> I think of the word dedication when considering what the instructors hve to
> deal with there as compared to our guide dog programs here in the U.S.  I
> suspect that compared to even the smallest school here in the U.S., they
> have some serious catching up to do, especially since the program went
> through some rough financial times about five or ten years ago (I had read
> an article about that sometime back, don't recall the source).  But they are
> carrying on, and that is commendable.
>
>
>
>
>
> Vanessa Lowery, LGSW
> Adult and Community Services Division
> Adult Services Screening Unit
> 410-853-3550
> VLowery at dhr.state.md.us
>
>
>
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