[NAGDU] FW: [GDUI Chat] FW: [angelsonges] training guide dogs at guide dog foundation

Mon Aug 26 02:05:57 UTC 2019

Hi Madison,
I would like to get a guide dog as well. Are you going to apply anywhere else? Where are you from and how old are you?
Thanks,

Amanda

> On Aug 25, 2019, at 7:27 PM, Madison Martin via NAGDU <nagdu at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi Amanda,
> No, but I am planning on applying to that school. Why do you ask? 
> Madison
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> at guide dog foundation
> 
> Interesting article. 
> Madison, do you have a guide dog from the guide dog foundation of America?
> Amanda
> 
>> On Aug 24, 2019, at 3:00 PM, Madison Martin via NAGDU <nagdu at nfbnet.org>
> wrote:
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Eric Calhoun [mailto:eric at pmpmail.com] 
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>> Subject: [GDUI Chat] FW: [angelsonges] training guide dogs at guide dog
> foundation
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>> Original Message: 
>> From: "Arlene" <arlenes71154 at earthlink.net>
>> To: <angelsonges at groups.io>
>> Subject: [angelsonges] training guide dogs at guide dog foundation
>> Date: 
>> Fri, 23 Aug 2019 16:44:19 -0500
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>> If you know of anyone that recently trained with a guide dog from guide
> dog foundation or has had dogs from the school, pass this story to them.
>> PUPS & PLANES Guide dog Gil learns what it takes to lead Meghan Giannotta
> meghan.giannotta at amny.com news section, newsday 8-13-2019 This is the third
> installment in our Gil's Journey series, where we track the progress of a
> pup in training with the Guide Dog Foundation. Check out his paw-some
> updates at amNY.com/Gil and follow him on Instagram at #GuideDogGil. Guide
> Dog Gil and his pals snarled human traffic at JFK this week when they
> stopped in Terminal
>> 4 to partake
>> in a puppy class with the Guide Dog Foundation. At just about 4'months
> old, our Gil -'who's learning to assist a blind or otherwise visually
> impaired individual -'was a bit too young to be a participant in the
> training session with the big dogs twice his age. Instead, he got to lead
> the pack with his mom,'Guide Dog Foundation Puppy program panager Lorin
> Bruzzese. Teaching the class, Bruzzese showed'a group of five other pups and
> their volunteer trainers how to keep their dogs focused in the busy terminal
> while Gil demonstrated class tasks. He loose-leash (a relaxed, tension-free
>> leash) walked near the other pups, practiced concentration when tempted
> with a fun tennis ball and showed off his "sit" and "stay" skills'around
> strangers.
>> "Gil did
>> really well while I was running puppy class. It's a challenge to not have
> my total focus, because he is very interested in eye contact and receiving
> feedback from me,"'said Bruzzese, 24, who's been working with Gil since he
> was a few'weeks old.
>> "While I'm
>> teaching puppy class, my focus is not entirely on training him because
> we're working with and guiding the other handlers, but he handled it really
> well.
>> Gil'also posed
>> for'a few photos with his traveler'fans. "This was the first time that the
> Guide Dog Foundation has come to Kennedy airport," said'Joanne O'Connell,
> the in-transit and companion animal director for The Ark at JFK. As a Guide
> Dog Foundation volunteer of 11 years,'O'Connell'helped the foundation secure
> rare access to use the terminal as a training ground. "An experience like
> this is so unique," said Bruzzese. "To allow them to move through security
> and experience a lot of the distractions that are going on around us, it's
> something that they most often would not experience until they're
> traveling'with their full-time permanent handler. While a certified guide
> dog is allowed full access in the airport and on a plane to assist their
> handler while traveling, those still in training require preapproval. "When
> they're young, the more distractions you introduce them to, the better it
> is. We take them on the subway, out to dinner, to the bank," said O'Connell,
> whose current guide dog in training Roisin took part in the class. The
> youngest in the group, she's used to joining her mom at The Ark, which
> opened JFK's Pet Oasis, an in-transit facility for animals, in 2017. "It is
> so common that people travel with their pets," she said,'"much more than you
> would even think. When Gil, Roisin, and their other pals are guide dog
> graduates, they'll be able to cruise through Terminal 4 without being
> distracted by the rolling suitcases or crowds of people and pets. "When a
> guide dog is traveling on a plane, they'd be doing tasks like leading them
> onto the plane and helping them find an open seat, though there would likely
> be assistance from staff on the plane,"'Bruzzese explained. "They'll be
> resting under foot and that's a good example of why we teach 'under. Once I
> find a place in a seat, he scoots himself 'under' and earns a reward.
>> Want to train a guide dog puppy? You can apply to become a puppy raising
> volunteer with the Guide Dog Foundation here.
>> 
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