[NAGDU] Mira guide dog school owner training multiple disabilities

[Star Gazer]

		Ok, I'll ask. How is the youth program different from the
adult program? 
When I was a teenager, I met another teen who had a dog from Mira. They
seemed happy together. 

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From: NAGDU [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Ka Li via NAGDU
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Subject: Re: [NAGDU] Mira guide dog school owner training multiple
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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
>> Sent: Monday, September 11, 2017 11:10 PM
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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 
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