[nagdu] bad to worse

[Tracy Carcione]

Great!  Hope that whoever comes can help you figure out what's going on.
Wishing you all the best.
Tracy

> My trainer said that I should not work the dog and that Leader would be
> out
> in about a week. Hopefully they will be helpful. I haven't really
> experienced alot of good from leader so I can't say if they are a fine
> school or not. From my experience I would disagree greatly.
>
> On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 8:52 PM, Joy Relton <jrelton at verizon.net> wrote:
>
>> Beautifully put, Tami. There really are a lot of things to consider.
>> I've
>> been therewith a dog who had hepatitis I there were days when he really
>> couldn't work safely because he just wasn't felling well.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
>> Behalf
>> Of Tamara Smith-Kinney
>> Sent: Wednesday, October 21, 2009 4:26 PM
>> To: 'NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users'
>> Subject: Re: [nagdu] bad to worse
>>
>>
>> Lora,
>>
>> This must be so heartbreaking for you!  Not to mention terrifying.
>>
>> Do let us know how the school responds.  Meanwhile, it's probably time
>> to
>> break out the white cane.  Things are starting to sound pretty
>> dangerous.
>>
>> Who knows how Trice would be without his chronic health problems.  When
>> Mitzi was having her serial UTIs, I finally figured out there were times
>> she
>> just shouldn't work.  Which was frustrating, since it really impeded our
>> team building process.  I would take her along with me to work on
>> etiquette
>> and obedience out of harness, but having cane in one hand and dog in the
>> other isn't always workable.  We never did figure out what was causing
>> them,
>> but we're nearly a year since the last one, and I still live in fear of
>> going through all that again.  Ugh!  But her work would suffer and she
>> would
>> take to wandering and would get grumpy and guardy in harness.  And
>> anxious.
>> I had known her in good health, so I knew it wasn't her norm, but it was
>> still hard to determine if she was coming up with a behavioral problem
>> or
>> if
>> she was sick again until the accidents started.  Sigh.
>>
>> I don't see what you can do if the school won't take responsibility for
>> the
>> vet bills so that you can get him healthy again without going broke.
>> And
>> until he's healthy again, how can you know what kind of guide dog he
>> would
>> be if he were well?  If the problem is the underlying illness, training
>> won't solve it.
>>
>> I wish I could give you something helpful, but all I can do is send you
>> long-distance hugs and well wishes.  Pass a few on to Trice.
>>
>> Tami Smith-Kinney
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
>> Behalf
>> Of Lora
>> Sent: Tuesday, October 20, 2009 4:35 PM
>> To: NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users
>> Subject: [nagdu] bad to worse
>>
>> I was walking to school and Trice took me out into traffic 3 times in a
>> mile. I thought he was guiding at first because there is alot of cars on
>> the
>> side of the street and such but he kept on walking across the street in
>> the
>> middle of the block. I just emailed my trainer so we'll see what she
>> says.
>> I
>> know that me being frustrated isn't helping Trice any but I've had
>> problems
>> since training. Sigh he's becoming a safety risk.
>>
>> Is it common that dogs just decide to do their own thing like that? What
>> is
>> first year of working with a dog supposed to be like?
>>
>> --
>> Lora and Trice
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> Lora and Trice
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