[nagdu] TSE and Guiding Eyes comparison

[Wayne Merritt]

I would agree with this customization. This last time I went last
fall, I was mainly concerned with how my dog would work in a work
environment, on busses and around horses, since I go horseback riding
on a regular basis. We were able to mix all of these elements into my
training, including visiting an old fashioned farm that happened to be
right next to The seeing Eye's property. This was the first time that
anyone from the school had had any reason to go to that farm, but I'm
pretty sure it won't be the last. Both the other retrain, my
instructor and I all had a great time there and came away with good
feelings about the place. And, how can I forget the mental picture of
both dogs, separately and at different times, stretching their necks
upward to sniff a large draft horse, who was also stretching his neck
downward over a fence to sniff this small creature. Priceless.

I was even able to get a field trainer to come visit me at my work
environment the secodn week I was home to make sure everything was
going okay. In short, I've had nothing but good experiences with The
Seeing Eye.

Wayne

On 5/16/09, JULIE PHILLIPSON <jbrew48 at verizon.net> wrote:
> I think in groups of 2 or 3 at first and then on our own after that.
>
> Julie Phillipson
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>>I believe at GEB they do obedience as a group but at The Seeing Eye after
>> about a week of supervised individual obedience or in pairs, we are
>> expected
>> to do obedience at The Seeing eye on our own and I'm sure they can tell if
>> we've been doing that or not.
>>
>> Margo and Arrow
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>> From: "amanda martins" <amanda.martins at gmail.com>
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>> Sent: Saturday, May 16, 2009 3:38 PM
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>>> According to friends of mine who've gone to GEB, most things are done  as
>>> a whole class, whereas at the seeing eye, you work in smaller  groups (4
>>> or 5 to an instructor, and most of the time, that group is  split up even
>>> further).  I can't speak for GEB's urban training,  having never gone
>>> there, but I found the training at TSE to be  excellent.  Since I lived
>>> in
>>> an urban environment at the time, I had  two all-day trips into
>>> Manhattan.
>>> My instructor even took me to  Greenwich Village where the grid pattern
>>> is
>>> nonexistent, as its layout  was closer to how Boston (where I was living
>>> at the time) was laid out.
>>>
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