[NAGDU] Guide dog schools employing blind people

[Monse]

Hi Tara, thank you so much for your words.
I live in Mexico. I have my dog since he was 6 months old. I’d always wanted to train my own guide, so after having experimented with my pet lab, which died almost 2 months before I got my current dog, I decided to ask a friend of mine to lend me an old harness he had and that's how I started my project. Then an organization realized the results I achieved and decided to run an assistance dog program that included guide dogs, so now I'm working for them in the whole training process.

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De: Tara Briggs [mailto:thflute at gmail.com] 
Enviado el: viernes, 5 de octubre de 2018 05:48 a. m.
Para: NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users <nagdu at nfbnet.org>
CC: Monse <monse_v at aol.com.mx>
Asunto: Re: [NAGDU] Guide dog schools employing blind people

 Wow! I think you have a fascinating story! If you don’t mind, will you be willing to share more. Help me understand. What country do you live in? Do you help train actual guide dogs? What part of the training do you participate in? I am looking forward to your response. And by the way I agree! Walking a dog as a blind person and walking your dog is so the person or completely different! Thank you so much for responding to this thread and I hope we can hear much from you.
Tara

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> On Oct 5, 2018, at 2:40 AM, Monse via NAGDU <nagdu at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi all. Here in my country there is the oldest guide dog school that 
> was founded by a blind person, but its founder is not involved in the 
> training of guide dogs at all.
> I'm an owner trainer and I'm currently working as a guide dog trainer 
> for an assistance dogs school.
> I think it's completely possible to work with clients during the 
> matching process, but not in the same way as sighted instructors. I 
> haven't had the chance to try it though. Blind people here have the 
> idea that a blind person just couldn't do it, which limits my possibilities.
> As for the length of training, It might take more time, kind of 2 
> months more, but the advantage that I find is that the dog is getting 
> used to work with a real blind person and is having the opportunity to 
> solve problems as if he/she were already working in real life during 
> the training process. we train one dog at a time, so yes we can work several dogs in a day.
> 
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