[nagdu] Training

[Lyn Gwizdak]

Hi Dar,
My preferred time to go to Seeing Eye is in the fall classes.  I'm 
originally from that basic region of the country.  I grew up just outside of 
NYC in Connecticut.

If you get the September class, the weather can be transitional - hot and 
humid one day and cool and cloudy the next.  Basically, the days are still 
warm and there are rainy days.  Bring clothes to layer and rain gear.  If 
you get the October class you can still have plenty of nice days but the 
class ends in November.  Very rarely will you get snow during this time but 
it isn't totally unknown to happen.  the early mornings can get quite 
chilly - 30s and even high 20s.  Sometimes there can be a little "black ice" 
that usually melts when the sun comes up.  there can be rainy, chilly days. 
It can be windy in Morristown but i think the students get to sit in the new 
downtown lounge to wait for your turn to work with the instructor.  For this 
class, bring plenty of clothes that you can layer or bundle up with.  Oh, if 
you have any sight at all, you'll get to see the wonderful foliage!

The times it tends to be really icy and snowy are the December, January, 
February, and sometimes even during the march class.  My Seeing Eye classes 
have been in March, May, September, and October classes.  For me, if I can't 
get into the October class, I'll just tell them I'll wait for the spring 
classes and avoid the worst of the winter.  I can't walk on ice either and 
my arthritis will be really bad back there in the cold, raw, wet weather 
then.

Hey, want a slow dog!  that describes Landon LOL!  Those aren't really that 
hard to find.  But it does matter what dogs are currently in the strings of 
dogs there now or are due back in for training.  The dogs for the fall and 
winter classes are just starting to come in from the puppy raisers to get 
their four months guide training before they are ready for classes.  Also, 
tell them you can come in on short notice if they have a good dog for you 
and there's a cancellation.  that happened like that for me when I went to 
get Jacob in 1999.  It worked for me.  Also, be open as to breed and sex of 
the dog.

I know how hard it is to be in the after acceptance stage and the wait for 
the class date time.  It is hard to plan other things and you have to tell 
folks, "Yeah I can do that IF I don't have my dog class then."  It will 
come.  they do a great job of matching a good dog.  I wish you lots of luck 
and enjoy New Jersey.  You'll get a trip to NYC - usually Times Square.  I 
forget, will this be your first time at The Eye or are you a returning 
student?

Lyn and Landon
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "d m gina" <dmgina at samobile.net>
To: <nagdu at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2012 5:27 PM
Subject: [nagdu] Training


>I must share this story, just cracks me up every time I think of it.
> I was in training with my dog, when we were learning how to get into a 
> car.
> This was the back seat of the car.
> I started getting in with one foot inside and sitting down.
> The next thing I knew here was this big dog sitting on my lap.
> the instructor wanted me to correct dog, but I was laughing so hard, that 
> I wasn't going to be able to do this.
> I pulled my foot in and the instructor shut the door.
> I know I laughed hard for at least one minute with this goofy dog on my 
> lap ever so proud.
> When I opened up door, and dog got off lap, we started all over again.
> Then the dog got in just the way he was trained.
> i have to say having my arms around the dog laughing, I feel broke ice for 
> both of us.
> that he knew he has business to do as well as he could make me laugh.
> Now it doesn't take much for me to laugh, so he didn't have to work hard.
> Of course I got the serman how I couldn't let this happen in a cab oh ya 
> or in a private car.
> I smiled and walked on my way.
> You know, there has to come a time when we let the dogs show some of their 
> sillyness so we can get to know them.
> this is what I think anyway.
> Still waiting for class date.
> If anyone lives in the New Jersey area, let me know what it is like in the 
> fall.
> The later the school keeps telling me the more afraid I am of wanting to 
> go here.
> I can't walk well on ice in Montana, I sure can't walk any better on ice 
> in a different state loll.
> I keep sharing this, and I don't feel I am being heard,
> all I get is we are trying to train a slow dog for you.
> I understand for the most part this doesn't happen, where you see,
> I am in Montana and in October not to far ago we got a foot of snow.
> I don't trust at all.
> Friday it was a beautiful day and Saturday morning we couldn't even open 
> the back door because of the snow.
> so you see, I am very concerned training in the fall.
> Thanks,
>
> -- 
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