[NAGDU] new guide dog

[Lisa]

Haha, I also got a second dog only a few days after qualifying with Taylor.

While crossing a street, Taylor got distracted and wanted to say hi (and 
therefore jump up) to a woman. I corrected him and when we had crossed 
the street, she said: "Oh, Layla is a beautiful girl!"



Am 02.07.2017 um 17:34 schrieb Dan Weiner via NAGDU:
> and what about walking  in a down town area and my second dog,
>
> Evan pulling a lot and I said, "come on,  steady", and a guy is on my 
> right and he said "yeah, come on, steady, be a good dog"--lol.
>
>
> So my new dog was named Steady.
>
>
> I hope you're all doing great.
>
>  out there
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>
> Dan
>
> dcwein at dcwein.cnc.net
> On 7/2/2017 2:53 AM, Charlene Ota via NAGDU wrote:
>> Great story!
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: NAGDU [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Heather 
>> Bird via
>> NAGDU
>> Sent: Saturday, July 1, 2017 9:32 PM
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>> Cc: Heather Bird <heather.l.bird at gmail.com>
>> Subject: [NAGDU] I Have a New Guide Dog Named Rex
>>
>> So, apparently I have a brand new guide dog I knew nothing about. 
>> She’s just
>> like Ilsa in every single way, a German Shepherd, trained by the 
>> Seeing Eye
>> and everything. She even has the same heart-shaped marking on her 
>> forehead.
>> I was walking along when I heard a man trying to get a loose, 
>> off-leash dog
>> back into his yard. Sometimes with dog distraction issues I ignore it 
>> and
>> see what Ilsa will do, and praise or correct as needed. Most of the 
>> time I
>> warn her with some strong “leave it.”s and work past the dog 
>> distraction.
>> Once in a while I will place her at a sit stay and wait for the dog 
>> to pass,
>> or in this case, to be brought back under control. So I told her 
>> “Sit. Atta
>> girl. Rest. Rest. Good. Rest.” The man still trying to get his own dog
>> turned to Ilsa and said “Good girl Rex.” Most people expect to hear 
>> the word
>> stay not the Seeing Eye’s “rest” command, and the way I was talking 
>> to her
>> with commands and command reminders and praise, I guess he thought 
>> her name
>> was Rex, hearing “rest” as “rex.” So, apparently I have a new guide dog
>> named Rex. Geez, I am always the last to know. *laughing* He seemed 
>> really
>> impressed at how she was sitting there like a perfectly behaved 
>> statue while
>> his dog was running around us, and it would be hilarious if he were 
>> to call
>> the Seeing Eye to congratulate them on “This awesome German Shepherd of
>> yours in my neighborhood named Rex.” TSE would probably be thinking 
>> “Erm,
>> what now? What is this man going on about? Sounds like Heather and 
>> Ilsa’s
>> neck of the woods, but that must be some dog from another school, or 
>> this
>> man is a little strange.” He must have been thinking that Rex is a funny
>> name for a female dog, as it is the word for king in, Latin I think, 
>> some
>> language for sure, pretty sure that it is Latin. Well I’m a strait LGBT
>> ally, so I suppose if Ilsa wanted me to call her Rex I wouldn’t judge.
>> *smile* I found it amusing so I
>>
>>
>> Heather Bird
>>
>> "They came first for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I 
>> wasn't
>> a Communist.
>>
>> Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a 
>> Jew.
>>
>> Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I
>> wasn't a trade unionist.
>>
>> Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was a
>> Protestant.
>>
>> Then they came for me, and by that time no one was left to speak up." -
>> Martin Niemöller
>>
>> In our diverse society we must never fail to speak up in the face of 
>> Human
>> Rights violations lest we be the next targets of such violations.
>>
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