[NAGDU] Mira guide dog school owner training multiple disabilities

[Yiska]

Julie,

Thanks for that information.
Yiska

On Sep 12, 2017 05:34, "Julie Johnson via NAGDU" <nagdu at nfbnet.org> wrote:

> Welcome Yiska!
>
> We do talk about owner training on this list from time to time, but if
> you'd like a place that's more focused I have a list for owner trainers.
> Send an email to: julielj at neb.rr.com letting me know you'd like to join
> and the email address you want to use and I'll add you.
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> To quickly answer your questions...it's highly doubtful that teaching
> additional tasks will mess up the guide training, but it will depend
> somewhat on what additional skills your training, the personality of your
> dog and the dog's ability to take on additional responsibilities.  Every
> dog is different.  Not every dog is cut out to be a guide and not every
> guide is cut out to be multi task trained.  That said, I think there's a
> good chance you could teach a guide dog the tasks you mentioned.
>
>
> Julie
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> -----Original Message----- From: Yiska via NAGDU
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> Subject: [NAGDU] Mira guide dog school owner training multiple disabilities
>
> Hello everyone,
>
> I am in between guide dogs at the moment. I just recently had to retire my
> dog Kori from the seeing eye due to a rapid eye skin pigment autoimmune
> disease.
>
> I have just been looking at various schools to somewhat ease the pain.
> There is a school in canada that trains dogs called Mira. Has anyone heard
> of them and can give feedback?
>
> Also I am thinking about owner training in addition to guide work
> additional tasks. I know that is not for this list but any idea where to
> go? Will it interfere with guide work? I am thinking about deep pressure
> therapy and some sound alerting tasks ie alarm clock and name. Thanks
> Yiska
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