[nagdu] Working Our Dogs
Sarah
coastergirl92 at gmail.com
Sat Nov 10 17:12:44 UTC 2012
They told me to just take Access when I have money. I wanted to
take the public bus but the bus sched-les don't say that the bus
even comes to the bus stop that's within walking distance from my
houseddAt first the trainers didn't want a dog even coming to
live in an area like the one I live in.
Sarah and Wizard
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From: "Julie J." <julielj at neb.rr.com
To: "NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog
Users" <nagdu at nfbnet.org
Date sent: Sat, 10 Nov 2012 11:08:18 -0600
Subject: Re: [nagdu] Working Our Dogs
What's the problem with the bus running only once an hour? Just
plan
accordingly. I used to live in a city where the busses ran once
an hour
for most of the day and longer on saturday. It's totally doable.
Just
wear a watch and know when the last bus is so you don't get stuck
someplace.
You knew the bus schedule when you got your guide dog. Nothing
has
changed. You knew you'd have to work the dog. I'm assuming
you've gone
over this with GDD. What suggestions did they make? Is there
some
reason those are not working for you now?
As to how much I work my guide in an average week...at least 5
days.
He's fine with a day or two off, more than that and he gets
fidgety and
restless. If we've had a long weekend out of town where he's
worked
some very long days in a row, I will plan for a day of no work or
very
light. An average week of routes would include:
5 trips to and from my office, about 10 blocks each way
1 trip to the middle school about 25 minutes one way
1 trip to the high school about 15 minutes one way
1-2 errands, generally these are downtown and I do them before or
after
work so maybe an extra 1-4 blocks on top of the route to work
1 trip to the grocery store by car, about 1 hour in the store
All of that stuff is pretty much guaranteed in a week, but I also
travel
out of town frequently. I suppose once a month if you averaged
it out
over a year. I also attend random meetings and teach an all day
Saturday class at the college 4 times in a school year. Then
there is
walking nowhere in particular for exercise or to spend time with
my son
just doing something we both enjoy. Oh and the random saturday
mornings
when you just have to have donuts and a mocha!
Even on Monty's days off I will still make sure he has a good
amount of
exercise by playing in the back yard or off leash running. A
note about
off leash time...if you're dog isn't trustworthy off leash you
shouldn't
be letting him free run. Monty is excellent off leash so he gets
that
opportunity. Belle would be in the next county in about 3
seconds so
she gets the Flexi leash. Monty is a very high energy dog and
needs
this level of work. I think Belle would be content with 2-3 days
a
week, if she were able to guide still.
Julie
On 11/10/2012 10:35 AM, Sarah wrote:
I live in the desert where the bus only runs ond an hour. And
my mom
works from 4 o'clock in the morning until 3 in the afternoon so
she
usually doesn't feel like taking me anywhere.
Sarah and Wizard
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From: Debbie Cole <debbieanne1124 at gmail.com
To: "NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog
Users"
<nagdu at nfbnet.org
Date sent: Fri, 9 Nov 2012 10:35:39 -0800
Subject: Re: [nagdu] Working Our Dogs
Do you use a city buss or Access (Mini Van for your transit
company
for the disabled? Unless you are in the suburbs You shouldn't
be
using that as an excuse. When your mom goes to the amrket go
along
with her and go off on your own jsut you and Wizard and do your
thing
while she does her thing.
On 11/9/12, Sarah <coastergirl92 at gmail.com> wrote:
I just wonder because I have nowhere to go nothing to do. I
have
no job and there's nowhere to go where I can walk except around
the streets of the neighborhood but he's getting bored with that
and the weather is getting bad. And I have no money for Access
to go anywhere.
Sarah and Wizard
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From: "Chantel Cuddemi" <jawsgirl87 at gmail.com
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Users'" <nagdu at nfbnet.org
Date sent: Fri, 9 Nov 2012 13:15:44 -0500
Subject: Re: [nagdu] Working Our Dogs
I give Motley the weekend off. He loves it!
Chantel and Motley
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From: nagdu [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Sarah
Sent: Friday, November 09, 2012 12:54 PM
To: NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog
Users
Subject: [nagdu] Working Our Dogs
Hello list,
I was wondering how often do you work your dogs? I feel like I
have to work Wizard every day and I feel guilty if I just let
him
have one day off. How long is the longest you've allied your
dogs time off?
Sarah and Wizard
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From: Sheila Leigland <sleigland at bresnan.net
To: "NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide
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Users"<nagdu at nfbnet.org
Date sent: Fri, 9 Nov 2012 04:52:34 -0700
Subject: Re: [nagdu] Diabetic alert dogs and how alert dogs
arepreventing aneed for a guide dog!
Lyn my husband and I were at the convention last weekend. Our
dogs misbehaved and growled and were immediately corrected. I
would agree with you if we chose not to bring our dogs under
control but we did and it didn't happen again. When you know
all
of the facts then please make judgment calls on whether a dog
should remain in a situation. I don't know of any dog that
hasn't made a misstep and the important thing is that the dogs
were corrected properly and immediately. In fact they were
still
lying at our feet. They didn't stand up or approach in any way.
Sheila Leigland
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