[NAGDU] Mira guide dog school owner training multiple disabilities

[Haylie Gallacher]

It is definitely possible to train your dog for more than one thing.  It
does depend on he dog though.  September and Belto I taught both how to
handle if I get a migraine especially one like I have right now that is bad
and I am out and about.  Both of those dogs somehow could tell long before I
could that I had a migraine coming on.  The dog has to be taught to slow
down for one, two they have to learn to make what they are doing a lot more
noticeable, and three, they have to be able to compensate for how bad my
balance usually gets.  Not much else changes since since Belto is already
taught to guide.  I just had to teach him the three things above.
Haylie

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Subject: Re: [NAGDU] Mira guide dog school owner training multiple
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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
To: nagdu at nfbnet.org
Cc: Yiska
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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