[nagdu] How long is "successful"

[rhonda cruz]

hello everyone,
 i've been working with my guide dog may,
 for 4 years,
 it has been great partnership.
 for my first dog.



On Jun 7, 2013, at 5:15 AM, Cindy Ray wrote:

> I think "successful" is a very difficult thing to define. What if you had your dog two years and the work had been great, but that dog got sick or so traumatized that it couldn't work anymore. But they were successful up to that point. What if someone works with a dog but it is a struggle the whole time, but they don't say anything to anyone about it. Is that success? I just think success is a little hard to define in black and white terms.
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> Cindy Lou
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> On Jun 7, 2013, at 7:03 AM, "Tracy Carcione" <carcione at access.net> wrote:
> 
>> Darla asked how long a team has to be out to be "successful".  I'd say at least 2 years, just to put a number on it.  Or possibly 3; I could argue either way.
>> I'd be real curious to see numbers from schools of teams graduated, and partnerships that lasted 3 years or more. I think that should be a pretty good indicator as to how well the school is doing. I mean, if school X put out 500 teams, and 300 of them stayed together, that's only a 60% success rate, and not so good.  But if 400 of them worked 3 years or more, that's 80% success, which is pretty good.
>> Tracy 
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