[NAGDU] Mira guide dog school owner training multiple disabilities

[Ka Li]

Hi Yiska,

I have a dog from Mira. I received my dog when I was 15 from there in 
their youth program. I would be more than happy to answer any questions.

Ka
On 2017-09-12 10:38 AM, Yiska via NAGDU wrote:
> 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.
>>
>> 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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