[nagdu] Test Walk?

Fri Feb 3 13:23:19 UTC 2012

wow.  Who is asked to muzzle their guide dog these days?  I mean, does that 
happen often enough that you guys need to learn to make a muzzle?

I'd like an order of ambition, & a side of focus, and a large coffee. And 
could you super size that please? It really needs to last for the rest of 
the day.
Lisa Belville
missktlab1217 at frontier.com

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Larry D. Keeler" <lkeeler at comcast.net>
To: "NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users" 
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Sent: Friday, February 03, 2012 7:20 AM
Subject: Re: [nagdu] Test Walk?

> Yah, we took the bus.  We also practiced muzzling our dogs with our 
> leashes. Just in case we ever were asked to.  I never have been but I know 
> how.  We also have to go into a store and buy something.  This is to see 
> if you can keep your dog from snatching something off the shelves and 
> scarfing it up! Actually, sence I always take the bus and walk, it was 
> great!  They gave us the route the night before so we could go over it. 
> If we had unexpected probblems like that bum that came out of nowhere or 
> getting disoriented in the store, the trainer would help us.  But for the 
> route and normal stuff they could talk to us but not give us any 
> information.  They also tested us with a trainer that we hadn't worked 
> with so that they could sort of eliminate any prejudices that your normal 
> trainer might have.
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Tracy Carcione" <carcione at access.net>
> To: "NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users" 
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> Sent: Friday, February 03, 2012 7:55 AM
> Subject: Re: [nagdu] Test Walk?
>
>
>> But it sounds like the Pilot folks are taking the city bus, which imho is
>> more challenging than a bunch of students being driven downtown in the
>> school's bus.  Actually, given the number of times a bus has passed me 
>> by,
>> or the driver has forgotten to announce my stop, it could be a lot more
>> challenging.  But maybe the Columbus bus drivers are used to Pilot
>> students waiting at that stop, and don't just breeze on by.
>> Tracy
>>
>>
>>> GDB kind of does that. We had several bus to lounge routes. The bus 
>>> would
>>> park a few blocks from the lounge, and we would get out one or two at a
>>> time
>>> (I cannot remember which) and walk to the lounge. We all started from 
>>> the
>>> same departure point, though. The trainers would hide themselves along 
>>> the
>>> route to watch us and distract our dogs. The dog distraction thing did 
>>> not
>>> usually work, though, because, by that time, we were used to the 
>>> trainers
>>> trying to distract our dogs. It was actually a lot of fun. Sometimes, if
>>> one
>>> dog team left the bus not long after another, the second team would try 
>>> to
>>> catch up and over take the team ahead of them. There were a couple of 
>>> dogs
>>> in the class who enjoyed walking fast.
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "loriandleo" <loriandleo at ohiohills.com>
>>> To: "NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users"
>>> <nagdu at nfbnet.org>
>>> Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2012 10:03 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [nagdu] Test Walk?
>>>
>>>
>>>> Hi Nicole,
>>>>
>>>> When I went to Leader to train with Leo my German Shepherd back in 
>>>> 2005,
>>>> the trainers would take us out in the mini bus and drive around for a
>>>> while
>>>> and then the trainer would drop   two students and their dogs off at
>>>> different locations and tell us where were getting dropped off at. And
>>>> the
>>>> trainer would tell us to find our way back to the training center. And
>>>> the
>>>> trainers would be out and about watching us. This was called our 
>>>> Mystery
>>>> walk.  The trainers wanted to see how well the student and dog worked
>>>> together on their own and that the student and dog are safe when out
>>>> walking.  we could ask for directions if needed.
>>>>
>>>> I really enjoyed this drop off mystery walk  that I had to do. It 
>>>> showed
>>>> to
>>>> the trainers that I could safely work and trust in my dog when out and
>>>> about
>>>> walking and that if I needed help because  of not being sure of where
>>>> I'm
>>>> at
>>>> that I can ask for some assistance and directions from someone if I
>>>> needed
>>>> to.  I have to say my dog and I and the other student and her dog  that
>>>> I
>>>> was with, we both found are way back to the training center just
>>>> figureing
>>>> out where were at together and working as a team.
>>>>
>>>> When I went to train with Gipp last December, the trainers were no
>>>> longer
>>>> dropping students and their dogs off and telling them to find their way
>>>> back to the training center. Take care.
>>>>
>>>> Lori and theGipper
>>>>
>>>>
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