[nagdu] I'm back

Tue Aug 20 20:16:40 UTC 2013

Oh no,

I'm saying that the two women that did not have to do the entire achievement walks at all and graduated anyway shouldn't have gotten a guide from them, but they did.

One was so fowl mouthed and loud about it and constantly corrected the dog when it was doing the very thing she had commanded she do and again, it makes pilot look bad because that is what people would see.  The constant corrections when the dog is doing what it is commanded it to do and the fowl language in which she does it.

The second woman was so out of it that she slept through the majority of the lectures, would talk to her dog and it would get up because she was giving it affection and then she'd jerk that chain and say own loudly instead of the appropriate way of correcting the dog in Pilot's eyes, which is a leash correction at the word NO not the command.

This same woman also thought tha an alien ship had come down in the court yard, hovered there and probed her and she made no bones about telling anyone so.  She also spoke to and about her dog in an offensive manner.  

If you can't do the entire walk, doesn't matter if you have to do it over, that's not the problem, but if you cannot do everything that is requiref of you and the school doesn't make you for some reason which I don't understand.  When we all, including you, had to do it and so did I, than the person shouldn't get the dog.  

There were several parts of the walk that were omitted for these people.  The school saw the two women's behavior and still gave them dogs.  Those are the people that will see the wonder and proud stamp inblazened on our harnesses, and determine that Pilot is a crappy school.

I meant no disrespect to you or Motley.

Jenny
On Aug 20, 2013, at 1:59 PM, "Chantel Cuddemi" <jawsgirl87 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Jenny,
> 
> I am a Pilot grad, and I went through the achievement walk twice, and I had
> to stay for extra training. 
> 
> So, are you saying that all Pilot grads are idiots? Pilot's name is engraved
> on Motley's harness. 
> 
> Chantel and Motley.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagdu [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Snow White Dove
> Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2013 2:20 PM
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> Subject: Re: [nagdu] I'm back
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I got Shasta at Pilot.  
> 
> I was and am astounded by their training of their dogs and their students.
> 
> I know they have a fowl reputation.  but when I was there, I saw why.
> 
> There were a couple of women ther that never should've gotten their dogs
> because they didn't have to go through the full achievement walk to
> determine whether they are fit for a dog.
> 
> Basically what I'm trying to say, politely, but truthfully is, that the
> reputation of Pilot is marred only by the idiots they let go home with dogs
> they sshouldn't have giving to people.
> 
> For any questions on the details of this opinion.  Please email me off list
> so as to not clutter the list.
> 
> I just have to say this.  Pilot is, in my opinion, being considered a less
> than desirable school ecause of the idiots that are seen because they're
> obviously not suited to have a dog and Pilot's name is on that harness.
> 
> No one sees Pilot on the harnesses of those who handle their dogs well and
> just blend in.  
> 
> Anyway, I'm done gushing over my experiences.  Please don't feel offended by
> anything I might have said.
> 
> If I've overstepped my bounds with the moderators.  Please know that
> apologize.
> 
> Jenny
> On Aug 19, 2013, at 7:34 PM, Marsha Drenth <marsha.drenth at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Jenny,
>> congratulations! 
>> What an interesting name..Where did you get Mr Shasta? I don't remember
> what school you apply to. Sorry.
>> May you both have many years of wonderful working relationship together.
>> 
>> 
>> Marsha drenth  
>> Sent with my IPhone 
>> 
>> On Aug 19, 2013, at 7:02 PM, Snow White Dove <jlperdue3 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Wanted to write to tell you all that I finally did it.  I know
> Cynprobably let you guys know already, but I figured I'd write myself.
>>> 
>>> I came home August 9th with an English Black lab named Shasta.  
>>> 
>>> He's a wonderful worker and has a great personality, but boy I wasn't
> sure of the personality part in the beginning or whether I could handle him
> at all.  
>>> 
>>> If he had not been on leash I think he'd have bounced off the walls all
> on his own steam.  
>>> 
>>> He settled down, and things are pretty cool now, but being 19 months old,
> he's a chewer.  I've had him on leash since I got him, and everything was
> fine till I got home with my brand new leather leash which he chewed in half
> in a perfectly streight line in two seconds flat.  
>>> Needless to say, I was embarrassed to call the school to order a new
> leash, but more embarrassed when the head trainer answered the phone.  He
> was cool about it, well for him, and said to give him a couple of weeks to
> get more leashes as theyn were out.  
>>> 
>>> I'm hoping they'll just give me a new one, but I don't think I'll be that
> lucky.
>>> 
>>> Also, he appears to be a dog, but is a beaver.  He eats anything wooden
> outside, and I can't seem to break him of it.  I've said no, leash
> corrections, drop it and removed sticks and twigs from his mouth.  ug.
>>> 
>>> Hope to hear from you guys soon.  I just did a mass delete before I wrote
> you all, so if you wrote me about Shasta, please forgive me and send it
> again.
>>> 
>>> Have a great day.
>>> 
>>> Jenny
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