[nagdu] Welcome

[Janice Toothman]

Welcome TJ and Becky,
I do not post much because I have been a fulll-time graduate student in 
counseling until this past year.  Now I am looking for a job and 
studying for licensing exams.

I had to retire my first guide dog Destiny due to seizures and other 
medical issues and I am awaiting an new class date at the Guide Dog 
Foundation for the Blind in Smithtown NY, home of Americas VetDogs. I am 
Deaf-Blind with balance issues and other health problems that I hope  my 
second guide will help with, like Destiny did.

Janice
On 7/2/2014 6:42 PM, Mardi Hadfield via nagdu wrote:
> Welcome to all the new people on the list.Mardi here from Arizona, where it
> is HOT!!My dogs are wearing their boots to keep their feet cool.I am an
> owner trainer and have had all Siberian Huskies as my guides except for one
> and he is a Belgian Shepherd.I work my dogs from a wheelchair.I am
> currently working 2 dogs. Shaman, my Belgian Shepherd, I use with my power
> chair and he can go pretty fast.He is a great guide and I swear he has ESP
> when it comes to traffic. I use Neechee,my Husky with a manual chair as the
> power chair does not fit in a car, and some times I go places  by car,
> sometimes by bus. I also use Neechee when I can walk some (more like
> hobble). Neechee walks slow enough for me to hobble next to her.For the
> most part, Rachel an I trained our dogs together. I enjoyed training my own
> guide dogs.I hope you all enjoy this list as much as I do.    Mardi and
> Shaman and Neechee.
>