[nagdu] Sad news

Sun Dec 23 18:21:22 UTC 2012

Thanks, Chantel.

Merry Christmas to you and yours.

Landon has been busy taking me around to all kinds of holiday celebrations - 
including marching in our neighborhood Holiday Parade.  Wwe've gone with our 
BCC Singers to sing at our Center's holiday parties and a number of nursing 
homes and retirement homes.  After Christmas, we will go to a nursing home 
with our program with our Humane Society where Landon and I have volunteered 
with for the past four years.

Hope everyone is enjoying their holiday season like we are!

Lyn and Landon
"Education creates tolerance towards diversity."
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chantel Cuddemi" <jawsgirl87 at gmail.com>
To: "'NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users'" 
<nagdu at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2012 12:25 PM
Subject: Re: [nagdu] Sad news

>I am so sorry to hear this.
>
> You're in my prayers.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagdu [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Lyn Gwizdak
> Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2012 2:07 PM
> To: NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users
> Subject: [nagdu] Sad news
>
> Hi All,
> I've been on this list for several years back when I had my yellow Lab,
> Jacob.  Some of you may remember when i had him - from Sept 1999 to Oct
> 2007.  I got word that he passed away last Monday (Dec 3rd) at the ripe 
> old
> age of 14.  He would have been 15 this past Thursday, Dec 13th.
>
> Jake was living here in San Diego County with a lady who goes to the 
> church
> I used to attend.  She told me that Jake was fairly healthy up until very
> recently and he died at home on his own.
>
> When I started to go to the church in 2000, this lady and Jake had a thing
> for each other.  She told me that Jake would peek out from under the pew 
> at
> her - especially if she arrived a bit late to services! LOL!  She wanted 
> to
> adopt him when he retired.  Wwell, she had to wait til October of 2007 -
> seven years - to get him and he joined her family which now included a
> rescue German Shepherd and her husband.  Her grown children and their
> families enjoyed Jake as well.
>
> When I talked to this lady today, she was still sad and we talked for a 
> long
>
> time.  She asked me to keep her in mind when I retire Landon and I said I
> would.  Jake and Landon met only once in 2008 when Jake came to the Naval
> hospital to be photographed with the team members of the pet assisted
> therapy we did there.  Jake outlasted the other three dogs in that program
> and not the program is gone.  Landon had two years in the program with one
> of the original dogs and another new guide.  I last saw Jake when the lady
> brought him to church one Sunday in 2008.
>
> How quickly time goes by.  Landon had his seventh birthday on Nov 20th. 
> He
> has a white face now but is still young at heart!
>
> Lyn and Landon
> "Education creates tolerance towards diversity."
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "consuelo johnson" <consuelo.johnson050 at gmail.com>
> To: "'NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users'"
> <nagdu at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Monday, December 17, 2012 3:03 PM
> Subject: Re: [nagdu] second time is the charm
>
>
>> Congraduation to you and your new partner and may you have many year of
>> service with her.  My name is consuelo and I just received my seventh dog
>> from a home school program.  She is a female daveman pitcher who's two
>> year
>> old
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: nagdu [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Daniel
>> Sent: Monday, December 17, 2012 3:39 PM
>> To: 'NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users'
>> Subject: [nagdu] second time is the charm
>>
>> Hello all,
>>
>>
>>
>> I am a graduate of the final class of 2012 at Guide Dogs for the Blind in
>> Portland, Oregon.
>>
>> I have received my second guide, Cass, a 53lb., 23" high, yellow Labrador
>> whose second birthday is coming up on December 23rd.
>>
>> All I can say is the second time is the charm. She is everything my
>> previous
>> guide was not. She is confident, well-paced, and so well trained that it
>> makes me want to cry.
>>
>> We never even came close to an obstacle in training, whether day or 
>> night.
>> She is perfectly attentive to me.
>>
>> We got home yesterday, and had our first outing this morning for a little
>> mile walk. She made every curb, driveway, missed every bush and mailbox.
>>
>> I have just received the best Christmas present I could have ever dreamed
>> of.
>>
>> More later as we progress from off the leash in the house to partial
>> freedom, and all the usual breaking in. Oh, what a beautiful day!
>>
>> Thanks to all of you who encouraged me not to judge all guides on my 
>> first
>> bad experience with Scout. Although he was truly loved, I am sure he is
>> happy as the Disney dog and family friend he always wanted to be.
>>
>> Wishing all of you the best this holiday season!
>>
>>
>>
>> Daniel and his new love, Cass
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Daniel Sweeney
>>
>> Lakewood, CO
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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