[nagdu] Statistics

[Cindy Ray]

I think that average makes sense from what I've seen. First of all, there aren't that many dogs that make it nine or ten years, like used to be stated. Second, there are enough dogs that have to retire early, that this would seem most realistic.

Wow, Toni. That is just awful. I'm glad you weren't hurt much when you got knocked down.

Cindy Lou

On Jun 17, 2013, at 11:52 AM, "Toni Whaley" <blind_treasurer at verizon.net> wrote:

> Hello!
> 
> I've heard from at least two schools that the average working life of dogs
> who work regularly in large cities is around 6-7 years. This makes sense to
> me given how crazy people drive especially here in the northeast. People
> around here run red lights. Right on red is legal in this state. However,
> there are people who think left on red is OK too. But drivers aren't the
> only crazy people. We have people running and skate boarding down busy
> sidewalks. A couple months back some idiot came running down the sidewalk
> toward us. Haze tried to get out of the way, but things happened too fast.
> The next thing I knew was that I was lying flat on my back. Had I not been
> carying a backpack filled with all kinds of stuff I would have cracked my
> head on the ground and probably gotten a concussion. (This person never even
> stopped to see how I was.) Fortunately, Haze wasn't hurt, and I was only
> pretty sore for a couple of days.
> 
> Toni
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagdu [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Tracy Carcione
> Sent: Friday, June 14, 2013 11:44 AM
> To: NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users
> Subject: [nagdu] Statistics
> 
> I'm reading TSE's 2012 Annual Report, which is full of interesting
> statistics, if one is into that kind of thing.
> So I took the number of working teams, 1710, and divided it by the old
> average number of teams graduated in a year, about 250, and came up with an
> average worklife of 6.84 years, which actually sounds about right, though
> I'd have thought it would be closer to 8.
> I used the old average yearly number, even though they bumped it up last
> year to 275, which drops the average worklife closer to 6 years.  But I
> figure most of the teams working now went out before last year.
> Anyway, there it is.  If other schools' annual reports have similar data,
> I'd be interested in hearing about it.
> Tracy
> 
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