[NAGDU] Mira guide dog school owner training multiple disabilities

Danielle Ledet singingmywayin at gmail.com
Wed Sep 13 07:05:24 UTC 2017


Well I am confused. Jordan? Haylie?

On 9/12/17, Haylie Gallacher via NAGDU <nagdu at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 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
> disabilities
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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
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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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