[nagdu] Pilot was guide dog schools and relieving

[Cindy Ray]

I have noticed that this list talks a lot about poop. LOL. But these are truly important issues. I know they are. No, I don't think anyone should be exempt as a trainee either. A few times instructors picked up for me, but that was when they were picking up something that someone had left for whatever reason.

Cindy Lou

On Jun 23, 2012, at 6:32 PM, Tina Thomas wrote:

> All guide dog users should be picking up after their dogs. That is one of
> the ways that you can tell if your dog might be having some health issues.
> Also, it's a common courtesy so that people don't step in it and track it
> all over the place. I'm sure that I don't have to tell  you all  who have
> stepped in dog poop that has been left  in the middle of  a pedestrian walk
> area and you are on your way somewhere important and you find yourself
> having to be late or miss your appointment because of someone being
> irresponsible. 
> On another subject, I don't believe that  anyone who is in training at a
> school should be exempt from picking up after their dogs just because they
> know how to do it. That is not a good practice at all. 
> Tina            
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> Of Reinhard Stebner
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> 
> At The Seeing Eye, they had us picking up after our dogs after the first
> week. I truly appreciated this fact and I had started touching my pup on the
> very first time to see if he was going number 1 or 2. The last dog I had
> would sit so far down that it looked like he was going to sit on his own
> poo.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> Of Criminal Justice Major
> Sent: Saturday, June 23, 2012 5:59 PM
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> 
> Not to be a bragger on purpose here, but during the time I was in training
> with Odie, the rest of the trainies ended up having to go out to the relief
> area to practice picking up after their dogs.
> Reason was a few who weren't checking the area thoroughly to see that they
> pieced everything up if the dog dod go in harness.
> I lucked out as Mike Tessmer the training instructor privately told me I
> didn't have to be apart since he watched how well my cleanning job was when
> it came to picking up.
> He did ask me to come and observe and assist if there were to be problems.
> One trainy who was a first time guide dog user almost began cursing when he
> felt the doggy doo, despite having a plastic bag over his hand.
> I informed him that if he was going to be a guide dog user, he'd have to get
> used to cleanning up after his dog, despite the feeling of it.
> He ended up not making it through the training for personal reasoning where
> he felt that it wasn't the right time for him to train with a guide dog.
> Despite that the training was a great success, I would like to see a change
> of where the students are to practice cleanning up after their dogs in the
> relief area more because once they get home, it's the real adventure and no
> trainers will be around to pick up after the dog.
> That's the only draw back see is the instructors cleanning up and not the
> trainies, as what if a trainy is a first timer?
> By the second or third week of training, that's when the student should be
> able to pick up the stuffon their own.
> For those who are retrains, I'd think they'd be able to pick up after their
> dogs by the end of the first or second week.
> Just my thoughts on this one.
> Bibi
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