[nagdu] retirement

Tue Nov 20 17:58:27 UTC 2012

I am ssorry to hear about this.  I couldn't imagine what From 
would feel if I had to retire Wizard at 3.  He's 3 now! If you 
get another guide it wouldn't be so hard after you retire 
Princess.

Sarah ed Wizard

 ----- Original Message -----
From: "Hannah Chadwick" <sparklylicious at gmail.com
To: "'NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog 
Users'" <nagdu at nfbnet.org
Date sent: Tue, 20 Nov 2012 08:52:43 -0800
Subject: Re: [nagdu] retirement

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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