[nagdu] Reasons for choosing a particular guy dog school

[Danielle Sykora]

I received my dog from the Guide Dog Foundation. I chose this school
based mainly on its ownership policy because I wanted full ownership
upon graduation. Among the few schools that offer full ownership upon
graduation, they seemed to have the most positive training methods.
Lower age limit was also a concern as I am still in high school. Some
things I didn't know or strongly consider at the time that I am now
glad I experienced were small class, a 12 day training program, and
the issuing of dogs around two.

Danielle and Thai

On 3/20/15, The Pawpower Pack via nagdu <nagdu at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> I'm an owner trainer and there are several reasons why.
> The first is that I like dog training.  Ok, I love! dog training!  It's my
> hobby and my joy.  Some people sew, others garden, I train dogs.  It's
> something that is challenging and enjoyable.
> Also, not many programs out there accept Deafblind people who use ASL, and
> out of those programs, many do not give ownership.  I attended a program
> before I started training my own, and the biggest lesson I took from that
> experience is, I will never attend another program which will not allow me
> to own my dog.
> I am a control freak.  I feed a prey model raw diet, and believe in natural
> rearing and clicker training.  There are not programs which do these things.
>
> I do dog sports.  I have done, at one time or another, agility, herding,
> bikejoring, canicross and pet therapy with my dogs.  Not all my dogs do all
> these things but my border collie herded and my first lab did agility, and
> Soleil is doing joring/urban mushing with me.  When I had program dog, they
> freaked out when I told them I was doing agility with my guide, because they
> had this crazy idea that my dog would start jumping over obsticles instead
> of guiding me around them.  I do not want to have to justify my choices to
> do dog sports to a program.
> I can use whatever I want with my dog, training method, equipment, whatever.
>
> So that's why I do what I do.
>
> Rox and the kitchen Bitches:
> Mill'E, Laveau, Soleil
> Pawpower4me at gmail.com
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> On Mar 20, 2015, at 12:33 PM, Tara Briggs via nagdu <nagdu at nfbnet.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all:
>> I thought it would be interesting to find out why people chose to go to
>> the  various guy Doug schools? If you train your own dog, what factors
>> contributed towards this decision? I'll start by answering my own
>> question, I went to the Seeing Eye because I like their ownership policy.
>> I had also attended a couple of their free breakfast at national
>> conventions and thought the people seemed really nice. I'm looking forward
>> to everyone's replies!
>> Tara Briggs
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
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