[NAGDU] houdini guide dog

Tue Jan 30 18:25:26 UTC 2018

September was sneaky as could be.  I was working her once and all of a
sudden I had a harness, collar and leash and no dog attached.  It was at
that point that GDB sent me a smaller harness and smaller collar.  She never
got out again except once on a Greyhound bus.  
Jordan

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Jordan:

Eva gets out of her harness too.  When she is on her long 30 foot leash in
my back yard I am constantly checking on her to be sure she has not slipped
out of her collar.  The worst time when she got out of her harness was when
we were flying back from the NFB convention.  I had a long time between
flights and Eva fell asleep curled up under my chair.  When I heard the
announcement for our flight I got her up and prepared to walk toward the
plane.  To my amazement I could not feel any harness handle on her back  . 
Somehow she had slipped her front paws out of the chest strap but the belly
strap was still buckled with the harness upside down so the handle was under
her belly with one of her back paws caught in it.  What a time I had getting
her untangled harnessed up correctly and then getting to the plane before
the doors closed.  Whenever she is under a seat I have to get her up and
feel to be sure she is still in her harness the correct way.  When I first
got her I told her trainer I thought this harness was too big for her but he
said she would grow into it because at 14 months old she still had a lot of
growing to do before she reached her full growth at 2 years old or more. 
Well the little golden is still the same tiny little girl I brought home 4
years ago and at 5 years old she will definitely never grow into this
harness unless I fed her an enormous amount of food which I will never do. 
Our silly pups keep us wondering what they will do next .

Sandra and Escaping Eva
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From: Jordan Gallacher via NAGDU
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Yep.  September did that once.  It was funny.  I was going somewhere and was
not going to take her.  Knowing that she would get into things if I left her
alone for any period of time, I put her on tie down.  When I came back home
however, she had somehow gotten the tie down off and was all the way across
the room from the tied down.  She was good at figuring out how to get out of
her collar and harness as well.
Jordan

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Subject: [NAGDU] houdini guide dog

This post is not about Delta, I swear! You can all breathe a sigh of relief.
I have very strong opinions about Delta, but I'm saving them for their
disability services department because you all seem like good people and
don't deserve a chewing-out.
Anyway, what this is about is asking whether guide dogs have the ability to
get out of tie-down.  I put my lovely pup Nigel on tie-down last night to go
to sleep like I've done every single night for the past six months.  I know
for a fact I clipped the tether to his collar.  Unlike every other night,
however, he decided to somehow get off of tie-down and come wake up up at 5
AM by dropping a slobbery NylaBone on my head.  Is this possible?
I kind of thought you had to have thumbs to get the tie-down cable on and
off.  Has this happened to anyone else before? It was so weird!
Jessica Glasebrook

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