[nagdu] From what school did you get your dog?

[Bryan Gearry]

My Guide came from the Guide Dog Foundation. He is a large (size) Golden 
Retreiver. Since I live in Alaska, GDF tailored trained him for dealing 
with this type of life style. We use boats and airplanes a lot for 
transportation. When I got him, he had no problems jumping in a small 
boat and going places. I even took him to Hawaii on a charter with 20' 
swells. He did better than the other 2 fellas on the charter. Also GDF 
had made arrangements to get him accustom to fly in small planes. He and 
I went up over Long Island in a Cessna 172 and the pilot did a lot of 
steep turns to get him used to unusual attitudes. It has come in very 
handy as now he has no problem of jumping the back of a Super Cub and 
landing in the bush....very handy! The other thing that GDF did think of 
was to introduce him to large animals. They had exposed him to horses 
and cows. We have a lot of Moose where I live and he has had many 
encounters and behaves wonderfully. We have even had numerous Brown Bear 
encounters. He doesn't start barking or going crazy as that would 
probably be perceived as a threat or we would be a statistic! I'm not a 
poster child for GDF, but they matched and trained this Guide perfectly. 
Can't say enough good about them. I'm sure that everybody else has had 
some great experiences with their schools also.

On 3/20/2015 7:08 AM, Bridget Walker via nagdu wrote:
> I got my dog from Guiding Eyes in New York. My dog is five now. Training and travel were free. The instruction was very individualized. I have a secondary disability they were able to accommodate in the regular class. I did not need to be placed in the special needs program though they have one. If I choose to get another dog, I plan to go back to Guiding Eyes. They have been very supportive from the day I started thinking about applying to get a guide dog.
> Bridget and Paulson
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>> On Mar 20, 27 Heisei, at 10:53 AM, Sheila Leigland via nagdu<nagdu at nfbnet.org>  wrote:
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>> my husband and I also got our dogs from Pilot dogs. They are both five year old golden retrievers.
>>
>>> On 3/20/2015 7:01 AM, Clare Westlund via nagdu wrote:
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>>> Sent from my iPhonegood morning everyone! I thought it would be fun to discover what screw everyone chose to attend in order to receive their dogs? I got my dog from pilot dogs! He is a 23 month old golden retriever, as of tomorrow!I hope to become friends with you!
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