[NAGDU] GDA

[NAGDU President]

Dear All,

	A few years ago, the National Association of Guide Dog Users asked each of the guide dog training programs to send us their ownership agreements. The only agreement we received directly from a training program came from Guide Dogs of America! The other programs either ignored our inquiry or claimed their agreements were proprietary information.

Fraternally yours,
Marion

Marion Gwizdala, President
National Association of Guide Dog Users Inc. (NAGDU)
National Federation of the Blind
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-----Original Message-----
From: NAGDU [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Lisa Belville via NAGDU
Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2019 12:21 PM
To: Dan Weiner via NAGDU
Cc: Lisa Belville
Subject: Re: [NAGDU] GDA

Yep, I agree with Dan in this respect.. I've found the staff at GDA to 
be open and generally better at communication as compared to other 
schools I've dealt with.  Don't be afraid to push for more specific 
reasoning.  it could be that this particular rep doesn't like the fact 
that you've had issues with dogs in the past and is automatically 
equating that with your handling skills.


Lisa


Lisa Belville
missktlab1217 at frontier.com

On 2/20/2019 4:03 AM, Dan Weiner via NAGDU wrote:
> Hello, Jordan, if someone told me that I'd want specifics as to what 
> exactly the skills are I don't have, otherwise I wouldn't take it too 
> seriously except that they're trying to brush you off which isn't 
> good, see if you can pin them down.
>
>
> Yours,
>
> Dan
>
> On 2/19/2019 6:50 PM, Jordan Gallacher via NAGDU wrote:
>> I find it really odd that GDA is telling me that I do not have the  > 
>> skills to handle a guide dog when field reps from a couple other > 
> schools have told me that I am a great handler. In fact, the last > 
> two field reps to tell me that were just plain surprised that I was > 
> not willing or wanting to send Belto back like others might have and > 
> probably would have done with the isues he had even at the > 
> beginning. My field rep from the school where I received September > 
> was the same and had tried at one point to talk me into retiring her, 
> > and to this day neither he or I can figure out what did it to get 
> her > working properly until she was attacked. GDF, GEB, and 
> Southeastern > are the other schools I am looking into at this point. 
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