[nagdu] Statistics

[Cindy Ray]

Well, the most I have had with a dog was about eight years. I did have one for six, but she had been out a couple of times before me. The way I see it, each separation and ending marks a bitter sweet ending and an exciting possibility for a new beginning, and always there are the memories of the joys and struggles with each dog. I won't soon forget Spencer, but Fisher has been grand. The others never made it that long because of quikrs and mismatches.

I think the thing that bothers me most is when people insist on telling me that Fisher is growing gray around the muzzle. It does keep reminding me that all too soon our working relationship will be over, and with it will end my career of partnering with dogs. But I enjoy the time I spend with Fisher a lot, and I try not to dwell on the end. There isn't much point in doing that.

CL

On Jun 17, 2013, at 12:13 PM, "Tracy Carcione" <carcione at access.net> wrote:

> Hi Toni.
> Well, that sounds right, but it's kinda depressing.  Especially since Ben
> will be 9 soon.  But he seems to be doing fine.
> I'm glad you weren't hurt when that idiot ran you down.  I got smacked
> pretty hard by a fool yakking on his cell phone while crossing the street.
> Ben couldn't get out of his way, because the crosswalk was very crowded,
> and naturally Ben wouldn't want to step out into traffic. So there was no
> way for Ben to get me out of the way.
> Tracy
> 
>> 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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