[nagdu] retirement

[Hannah Chadwick]

Thank you marsha and all. Yes, university life is very difficult for dogs
and it does take a lot. Guess Princess doesn't have it either.
She is only 3 acording to Pilot, and they seem to want her back. I haven't
really been able to connect with them because they are not calling me back.
I can't have a pet in the dorms and I can't really afford to keep one
either, but I do have very close friends who would love to have Princess.
I'm going to do my best to try to keep her, but since I don't have ownership
of her and she is only 3, I think that she'll get some more training with
Pilot and go work with someone else. Maybe she'll do better in other
environments, who knows...

-----Original Message-----
From: nagdu [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Marsha Drenth
Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2012 7:36 AM
To: NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users
Subject: Re: [nagdu] retirement

Hannah, 


Awwww I am very very sorry to hear about this. Its so hard to retire your
parnter at any point. Espically during your semester. I have been there done
that, not sure i want to do that again. 

I am learning as a university student myself it takes a very very special
pup to be able to put up with university life. My university also has many
of the same challenges as yours. Squirrels, bikers, skateboarders, thousands
of students, cars, trucks, subway, train, birds, and more. The pup so far is
doing great, emma could not. 

I wish you luck. Will you keep Princess as a pet? And will you get another
guide? Just curious. 



Marsha drenth
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On Nov 19, 2012, at 11:58 PM, "Hannah Chadwick" <sparklylicious at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hello all,
> I hope everyone is doing well. I haven't been posting or keeping up 
> with everything recently because this is my first quarter at UC Davis 
> and things have been pretty crazy. Now that everything is sort of 
> falling in to place, I wanted to welcome everyone who is new to the 
> list, the people who have returned, and an update about Princess.
> Unfortunately she has not improved much since I last posted about her
work.
> it has been almost a year, and campus is a pretty busy place. We have 
> a lot of distractions - all the students, over 20,000 bikes, and the 
> millions of squirrels that we pass every day - so Princess is not 
> doing so well. I thought that perhaps being here for over 3 months 
> would help, but it has not, and she continuously walks me in to 
> objects, wants to run after the squirrels or students, and seeks 
> attention from everyone who says something along the lines of, "awww! Cute
doggie!".
> With all this in mind, I have decided that I will retire her because 
> of all the stress for her and for me.
> I know that it will be a great loss since we've bonded, but I've also 
> had a lot of time to get used to this idea. I don't know when I will 
> retire her because Pilot has not been very good about returning my 
> calls, but I do know that it will happen very soon.
> I'm sure many of you have gone through this before, and I just hope 
> that I won't be too depressed over it.
> Once again I hope everyone is doing well with your guides, and happy 
> Thanksgiving! :) All the best, Hannah
> 
> 
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