[nagdu] What do you do when you're angry with your dog?

[Pickrell, Rebecca M (TASC)]

It's the classic disconnect between a job and a lifestyle. Any problem
is fine if you don't go home with it and don't have to be the one to do
it. 
This isn't unique to guide dogs, it happens with teachers/daycare, and
medical people to provide two examples. 
The difference though is that a school can always decide not to send a
person home with a dog, whereas there isn't much a teacher, or daycare
provider or doctor can do if I ignore them, though they will certainly
want you to think there is. 
 

-----Original Message-----
From: nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Michelle
Sent: Sunday, March 28, 2010 4:21 AM
To: NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users
Subject: Re: [nagdu] What do you do when you're angry with your dog?

Ah, I would have gotten frustrated and said that if the instructor
didn't 
help, I'd retire him and get a new one. The next option is to just be
blunt 
and say that you want help because you're the one who handles the dog
every 
day and you need to feel safe, and that you don't appreciated being 
disrespected like that. Maybe ask him how he'd feel if he were put in an

insecure situation like that?

Cheers,

Michelle
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "d m gina" <dmgina at samobile.net>
To: <nagdu at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2010 2:39 AM
Subject: Re: [nagdu] What do you do when you're angry with your dog?


> Last year I went to the school working with Mike Sargent, on behalf of
> the walking harness.
> Sure came in handy this year.
> Getting back to that.
> One day they were doing car checks.
> My dog was so mad from the day before, because he had to walk in the
> rain he wasn't going to do a car check for me or anyone else.
> Now it was another instructor doing this, where they truly had to honk
> the horn in order for my dog to even look at the car.
> I was so badly shaken, that when I saw Mike I just started crying.
> The instructor who was with me said it was OK, my dog was having a bad

> day.
> I shared rite then and there, I can't have a bad day with my dog on
the
> street, it scared me to much.
> Now that I am a diabetic, I don't know with reading all of the
articles
> on folks getting hit, or anything like that if it gives me more of a
> scare I don't know.
> Mike was kind to me, and said you just have to blow it off.
> Now I disagree, when if I had been alone, I can't just blow it off.
> I shared if my dog did this to often he had to become retired.
> I didn't know how else to get the message across that I needed to be
> safe out there.
> What would you folks have done if this had happened to you.
>
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