[NAGDU] researching about getting a guide dog

Tue Dec 31 03:47:27 UTC 2019

Leader is the one dog school I absolutely do not recommend going to.  Their follow up services are terrible.  Seriously a  nine months to get someone to me when they knew full well that they sent me home with a dog that had serious problem around other dogs and also with street crossings.  On top of that, they kept saying they would send out a field rep as soon as possible, and the field rep that went to help one of my classmates after he arrived home, never came,and he did not live that far from where I lived at the time.  On top of that, their whole attitude about it being perfectly acceptable to stop in the middle of a street to redirect your dog is a no go item in my book.  Too dangerous to do that on any of the streets in any of the places I have lived.  I would not go to GDB either.  They decided to blame me for September being attacked,and that did it for that school.  Well, they blacklisted me as well, but it is their loss since I have filed a formal complaint against both Leader and GDB with the organizations that they are members of to shed light on what really goes on at these schools.
GDF is good,and had I been a little smarter, I probably should have gone their to begin with.
Jordan 

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Subject: Re: [NAGDU] researching about getting a guide dog

I would not apply to more than 2 schools. Choose the 2 that you would be most likely to attend and go from there. I would assume that Leader Dogs might be a little easier since they know more information about you.

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Subject: Re: [NAGDU] researching about getting a guide dog

I am not really sure weather to ask this or not but some applications want a video as part of the application or doctors to sign off or stuff like that.  just that it seems like a shame to go through all that a paperwork if i don't go to that particular school for example.
I fully get what you are saying and if the application comes in paper format then i have to count on sighted help.  Like I said before leader dogs was good to me at least in the O and m week like i am very picky when it comes to eating but they made sure they had something I was willing to eat that asside i found it quite good. best week of my life even though i didn't get a dog it was nice to be out from home for a week. met some other blind people what not. but anyway i know some others may have had bad experiences there  or less then steller experience but that is not everybody sometimes it depends on the person sometimes instructors might have bad days to nobody is perfect but that asside I want to do the right thing for myself.

On 12/30/19, Sherry Gomes via NAGDU <nagdu at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> I knew I wanted to get a guide dog from the time I was seven years 
> old. I didn't really get the concept of independent blind mobility--it 
> was around
> 1964 and blind kids weren't taught much mobility--but I heard about 
> guide dogs and I knew I wanted one someday. I got my first dog right 
> after high school. I've never regretted that choice. I have always 
> loved dogs and I wanted my own dog. I do feel I have excellent 
> mobility with a dog, but that doesn't mean I think it's better. It's 
> better for me, but it's not necessarily better for everyone else 
> either. I have better balance with my dogs also, due to my lifelong arthritis, and I walk faster with a dog.
> However, having a guide dog isn't for everyone. It's a 24/7 
> responsibility, feeding, grooming, vet care, relieving in all weather 
> conditions. It's not an inanimate object you can put away when you get 
> home. After the work is done, the dog still needs play and affection.
> But it's definitely one of the best choices I made for my life. I 
> don't have a dog right now, but I'm waiting for them to find the right 
> match for me. And I can't wait. All my dogs came from guide dogs for 
> the blind, but I'm not going back there. I've been accepted by two 
> other schools, but with my situation, it's been a long wait so far, as they look for the right dog.
>
> Sherry
> Sherry.gomes at outlook.com
>
>
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>
> Tracey and Cindy have given you some good feedback.
> The truth is, you really don’t know until you do it if a guide dog is 
> for you.
> That’s true of all types of things though.
> View it as any other transaction, picking a college, buying a house, 
> getting married.
> Nothing commits you forever and it’s good to keep that in mind.
> If you don’t like using a dog, send the dog back. You want to like 
> what you do.
> Do give it time to get over an adjustment period, but also know that 
> you aren’t locked into anything.
>
> My dad says that nobody likes anything that is new. It’s worth 
> remembering that.
>
>
> Sent from Mail for Windows 10
>
> From: andrew edgcumbe via NAGDU
> Sent: Friday, December 27, 2019 10:53 PM
> To: nagdu at nfbnet.org
> Cc: andrew edgcumbe
> Subject: [NAGDU] researching about getting a guide dog
>
> Hi  I am just researching about the idea of getting a guide dog. I 
> know it may or  may not be for everybody in a sence because of work 
> involved. I like to hear about people's experiences and ask questions.
> I  know it is not for everybody but how do you really know for sure 
> weather it is for you or not for you you might think as a non guide 
> dog user that it may be an option but in a sence  may not fully 
> realize what is involved.  I have been suggested by it i has been 
> suggested by other people i should consider it and stuff like that in 
> the past and think it would be good idea for me.  but in last week or 
> so I decided to start looking into it all on my own. I know you do need good o and m skills. i can walk at least 2 or 3 roots myself.
> What is your experience been like with a guide dog would you 
> reckommend thatdog to those who feel like it would be an option to 
> them?  Would you feel a guide dog has made you even more independent
> over time did you find you were less independent without one?   like
> could you compair if it made a difference or not in your life as a 
> blind person.  and if you have a guide dog why did you even consider getting one?
>
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