[nagdu] Reasons for choosing a particular guy dog school

[Louise Johnson]

Hi well I did receive my five guide dogs from GDB  at there Ca campus. I
received my first one back in 1988 and it was because I had a friend that I
had watched for about 5 years and liked how the dog was trained, and there
follow up  program.

Louise and princess Kiara 


-----Original Message-----
From: nagdu [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Danielle Sykora
via nagdu
Sent: March 20, 2015 5:30 PM
To: NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users
Subject: Re: [nagdu] Reasons for choosing a particular guy dog school

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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