[nagdu] collars

[Marianne Denning]

You did a very good job explaining.  Wow!  I wouldn't like that at
all.  Could I give our exchange student your contact information?  She
lived in Sweden for a few years and speaks Swedish.  She would love to
have a guide dog in the future.

On 3/19/15, Leye-Shprintse Öberg <nagdu at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> BS'D
>
> Marianne,
>
> We don't have a guide dog school in Sweden anymore. It's complicated, our
> dogs are paid for by tax money, we get them for free, and our dogs are owned
> by the Swedish Association of the Visually Impaired's Guide Dog Authority
> which gives the handler a right of disposion to the dog. They purchase guide
> dogs from schools in Sweden and Norway right now. But we get all support
> from them and not from the schools. I don't think it's a good system.
>
> So it works like this, (I'm sorry for my bad English.) Before I received my
> dog I applied to the Guide Dog Authority who gave me a right of disposion to
> a guide dog. The Authority purchase 40 dogs every year from guide dog
> schools in Sweden and Norway and their instructors (who do the final test
> with the dogs) match the dogs with the handlers on paper and then they call
> the applicant and inform her/he that she/he has been matched. Sometimes, you
> get the dog's trainer as instructor at the Basic Course 1, but you're not
> always that lucky. If you get problems you contact the Authority's
> instructors for help and we also get our vet bills paid for. However, I
> don't think this is good, I don't have any contact with my dog's trainer or
> (very little) with the Authority. My next dog will not come from them that's
> sure. You can go through the school directly but then it cost around 250 000
> SvK (25 000 Euros), a lot of money.
>
> I don't know if this was understandable? I'm tired.
>
> Kind regards,
> LeSholom,
> Leye-Shprintse Öberg
> Stockholm, Suède
> leyeshprintse at ymail.com
> http://leyeshprintse.com
> Envoyé de mon iPhone
>
> Le 19 mar 2015 à 14:47, Marianne Denning <marianne at denningweb.com> a écrit :
>
> Is there a guide dog school in Sweden?  If so, what is the name?  We
> have an exchange student from Bosnia who has a brother and sister in
> Sweden.
>
>> On 3/19/15, Leye-Shprintse Öberg <nagdu at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>> BS'D
>>
>> Pam,
>>
>> I'm from Sweden and here it depends on what the dog's instructor has used.
>> Every guide dog handler gets a 'play collar', but my regular collar was a
>> slip collar. Today, I use a martinale collar when we're working and my dog
>> wears a flat collar otherwise.
>>
>> Kind regards,
>> Lesholom,
>> Leye-Shprintse Öberg
>> Stockholm, Suède
>> leyeshprintse at ymail.com
>> http://leyeshprintse.com
>> Envoyé de mon iPhone
>>
>> Le 19 mar 2015 à 10:09, Pam via nagdu <nagdu at nfbnet.org> a écrit :
>>
>> hi everyone. i am just curious as to what sort of collars u get from your
>> schools for your dogs? here in ireland we get a half check collar and also
>> a
>> play collar which is just a nylon collar with a bell attached for when the
>> dog is having a run in the park or whatever. for those of u that use the
>> half checks do u leave them on the dog all the time? also which type of
>> half
>> check do u use the 1 that slips over the head or the 1 with the quick
>> release clip? here we r given the type that slip over tha head. thanks :)
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
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Marianne Denning, TVI, MA
Teacher of students who are blind or visually impaired
(513) 607-6053