[nagdu] Brandy, 13?

[Darla Rogers]

Dear Rox'e

	You know Sarah, don't you?  She raised one of my guides--she
actually raised three or four--and she received her first guide at
seventeen; the school had some living situation concerns, so I wrote a
letter on Sarah's behalf, and they changed their minds.
	Her match was as food a match as I have ever known about, but he had
to be retired early and sent over the Rainbow Bridge due to cancer.
Darla & Huck


-----Original Message-----
From: nagdu [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of The Pawpower Pack
Sent: Friday, April 04, 2014 10:31 AM
To: NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users
Subject: Re: [nagdu] Brandy, 13?

Also, aren't many puppy carers teens or pre-teens?  I have raised a puppy
for someone else and had a working partner, and many of the responsibilities
are the same.  So if these teens can raise a pup then a blind teen with the
same maturity level should be able to get a working partner. 
Mira is a really interesting programme. I wish I lived closer, I'd love a
tour. 

 Rox and the kitchen Bitches: 
Mill'E, Laveau, Soleil
Pawpower4me at gmail.com
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> On Apr 4, 2014, at 10:25 AM, Raven Tolliver <ravend729 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> No, every kid is not ready to handle a guide dog, just like every 
> adult is not ready to handle one. It is a school's call to judge 
> whether a child can handle a dog, and there are certainly children who 
> are quite capable of it. A couple of my coworkers have been 
> participating in training dogs for sports since they were adolescents.
> It is possible, and it is no more a good idea than it is to give 
> adults guide dogs. I have certainly seen and read about people who 
> should not be walking around with guide dogs, but there they are. If 
> crappy adult handlers can have guide dogs, what is the big deal with 
> an adolescent receiving one?
> It is hard when you first get a dog no matter how old you are. It is 
> frustrating to learn a new partner's signals, and to trust an 
> unfamiliar dog. There is no getting around that.
> 
>> On 4/4/14, Nicole Torcolini at Home <ntorcolini at wavecable.com> wrote:
>> I know someone who got his first guide dog when he was eleven. I 
>> think that it was from a Canadian school.
>> 
>> Sent from my iPhone
>> 
>> On Apr 4, 2014, at 4:44 AM, "Tracy Carcione" <carcione at access.net> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi Brandy.
>> You got your first guide dog at 13?  I'd be real interested to hear 
>> about that.  I'm curious what circumstances persuaded a school to 
>> waive the usual age requirement.  If it's none of my business, feel 
>> free to ignore my curiosity.
>> I've met a person who got his first guide when he was 14 or so.  I 
>> think he said that he had to negotiate a lot of busy streets, so a 
>> dog was real helpful, and he must have been a mature kid.
>> Tracy
>> 
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