[nagdu] First dog concerns

Tina Thomas judotina48kg at gmail.com
Tue Sep 4 19:54:49 UTC 2012


Hi Chris- 
Call the Seeing Eye traffic is nothing to mess with. The instructors will be
more equip to assist you with this matter. 
Good luck and keep us posted. 
>From a fellow grad Tina and K.  


-----Original Message-----
From: nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
Of Chris Harrington
Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2012 12:10 PM
To: NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users
Subject: [nagdu] First dog concerns

Good afternoon List,
My name is Chris Harrington, and I have recently gotten an awesome guide dog
from the seeing eye named Biery. He is a male german shepherd, and an
extremely sweet dog. However, I am having some worries about our bond and
the future. He is a confident dog, especially ware traffic is concerned.
However, he is sensative as well. During training at the seeing eye, I was
traffic checked, and Biery got me quite close to the car. He was hit with
the news paper, however the supervisor missed and hit him in the eye area.
After that, his confidence was down to nothing when it came to
intersections. That passed, and he bounced back to his confident self after
about a week.
I was crossing the street in front of my college campus last thursday, and
came with in two feet of a car that was turning as I was crossing the
street. I could hear it turning in front of me beforehand, so I kept the
instinct to get out of the way down until I was up close to it, at which
time I panicked. I thought I felt Biery back up, but I can't be sure. A
gentleman saw me from across the street, and he came out and let me grab an
arm to get the rest of the way across, which I accepted, because at that
point, I wanted out of the street as quickly as possible. From what the
gentleman had told me, the dog veered me out of the cross walk, but I wasn't
in the intersection, because I could hear cars going by on my left hand
side. It's been extremely hard for me to moove the trust from myself, to the
dog, and with this happening, I'm having even more trouble as far as trust
goes. Will the dog pick up on this and shut itself off from me? I'm also
having some trouble getting to "know" the dog if that makes any sort of
sense...
He's not a verry playful dog, and I'm having a really hard time figuring out
what he likes and doesn't like. I hope I'm making some sort of sense here,
and I appolagize for the ramble, but this is something I am really worried
about.
Any suggestions would really really be appreciated.
Thanks,
Chris Harrington

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