[nagdu] Dogs and instructors

Sun Oct 14 22:38:56 UTC 2012

remember.  Most importantly you're the boss.  Correct that dog.  Even
if it is around a trainer.  The dog knows what the correction is for.

On 10/14/12, Sarah <coastergirl92 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Yeah I'll ask Emceafor about it, but the last time they just said
> that the dogs will always get excited.
>
>  ----- Original Message -----
> From: Cindy Ray <cindyray at gmail.com
> To: "NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog
> Users" <nagdu at nfbnet.org
> Date sent: Sun, 14 Oct 2012 17:11:17 -0500
> Subject: Re: [nagdu] Dogs and instructors
>
> Did you talk with the instrutors about it? When I had a similar
> problem, I found the dog would work for me in places we hadn't
> been before.  Be sure you are talking about it.
>
> Cindy
>
> On Oct 14, 2012, at 5:04 PM, Sarah wrote:
>
>  With Wizard, he drags me out the gate to get to Emily and will
> not listen to me very good when they're around, and it makes me
> feel more discouraged every time they come over.  Then if they
> get a few feet behind us, he won't go.  They wanted to stay a few
> blocks behind us but Wizard wouldn't hop up and I don't know how
> to fix it.
>
>  Sarah and Wizard
>
>  ----- Original Message -----
>  From: "Chantel Cuddemi" <jawsgirl87 at gmail.com
>  To: "'NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog
> Users'" <nagdu at nfbnet.org
>  Date sent: Sun, 14 Oct 2012 09:34:26 -0400
>  Subject: Re: [nagdu] Dogs and instructors
>
>  Motley only wagged his tail at the trainer once when she came
> over with some
>  scissors to cut the hair around his eyes.
>
>  We were told to keep the dogs under control.
>
>  It wasn't easy at the beginning, but we did it somehow.
>
>  Chantel and Motley
>
>  -----Original Message-----
>  From: nagdu [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Sarah
>  Sent: Sunday, October 14, 2012 2:57 AM
>  To: NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog
> Users
>  Subject: [nagdu] Dogs and instructors
>
>  Hello everyone,
>  When you first got your dogs, did your dogs go nuts when they
> saw
>  the trainers? What did you do? Did you let them go nuts and say
>  hi to the trainers or get them under control?
>
>  ----- Original Message -----
>  From: "Chantel Cuddemi" <jawsgirl87 at gmail.com
>  To: "'NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog
>  Users'" <nagdu at nfbnet.org
>  Date sent: Sat, 13 Oct 2012 21:51:54 -0400
>  Subject: Re: [nagdu] O&M services with a dog
>
>  Hi all,
>
>  When I first came home from Pilot with Motley, the trainer and
> my
>  mobility
>  instructor worked on my area with Motley and I.
>
>  My mobility instructor seemed to be familiar with guide dogs
>  because she and
>  the trainer go way back.
>
>  Anyhow, she was able to help Motley and I along with routes here
>  in my
>  neighborhood, and it's worked out great!
>
>  All my best,
>
>  Chantel and Motley
>
>  -----Original Message-----
>  From: nagdu [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Cindy
>  Ray
>  Sent: Saturday, October 13, 2012 12:31 PM
>  To: NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog
>  Users
>  Subject: Re: [nagdu] O&M services with a dog
>
>  I know that lots of these folks don't know much about dog use,
>  but as they
>  show us a route, can't we tell them what we need? That's how
> I've
>  dealt with
>  any here.
>
>  Cindy Lou
>
>  On Oct 13, 2012, at 9:33 AM, Margo and Arrow wrote:
>
>  We have an O and M instructor in this area who's very familiar
>  with how
>  guide dog teams work.  I hear she's leaving, though.  I think
> one
>  or two of
>  the O and M instructors at our private blindness agency know
>  about dogs,
>  too, but, yes, those are few and far between.  I know some of
> the
>  schools
>  offer O and M people the opportunity to work with a dog, etc.,
>  but I wonder
>  how much they get to learn in the space of a couple of days.  In
>  other
>  words, do they learn enough to be able to help someone learn a
>  route or to
>  know what the dog is or isn't dong or the owner is or isn't
>  doing.
>
>  Margo and Arrow
>
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Debbie Cole

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