[nagdu] Ownership of your dog

Tue Nov 20 17:58:28 UTC 2012

Do most schools make you wait a year to claim ownership? Gdd 
does.  They said I will have ownership on October 7th, 2013.

Sarah and Wizard

 ----- Original Message -----
From: Marsha Drenth <marsha.drenth at gmail.com
To: "NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog 
Users" <nagdu at nfbnet.org
Date sent: Tue, 20 Nov 2012 12:31:59 -0500
Subject: Re: [nagdu] retirement

Hannah,

i am sorry you won't get to keep her.  That really stinks.  If my 
memory is serving me correctly, Princess is a poodle, right? 
There are other schools who use poodles, where you can get 
ownership.  Not that I am plugging for my school, but its 
something to think about.  I have also had a pup, and had to send 
her back to the school because of that ownership thing.  I won't 
go back to a school that doesn't give ownership every again.

When is your semester over? Nor did I realize that you were 
living in dorms.  I am sorry.  atleast for me, I commute to my 
university so I can escape that life.

Marsha drenth
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http://adventureswith2feet4paws.blogspot.com

On Nov 20, 2012, at 11:52 AM, "Hannah Chadwick" 
<sparklylicious at gmail.com> wrote:

 Thank you marsha and all.  Yes, university life is very 
difficult for dogs
 and it does take a lot.  Guess Princess doesn't have it either.
 She is only 3 acording to Pilot, and they seem to want her back.  
I haven't
 really been able to connect with them because they are not 
calling me back.
 I can't have a pet in the dorms and I can't really afford to 
keep one
 either, but I do have very close friends who would love to have 
Princess.
 I'm going to do my best to try to keep her, but since I don't 
have ownership
 of her and she is only 3, I think that she'll get some more 
training with
 Pilot and go work with someone else.  Maybe she'll do better in 
other
 environments, who knows...

 -----Original Message-----
 From: nagdu [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of 
Marsha Drenth
 Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2012 7:36 AM
 To: NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog 
Users
 Subject: Re: [nagdu] retirement

 Hannah,

 Awwww I am very very sorry to hear about this.  Its so hard to 
retire your
 parnter at any point.  Espically during your semester.  I have 
been there done
 that, not sure i want to do that again.

 I am learning as a university student myself it takes a very 
very special
 pup to be able to put up with university life.  My university 
also has many
 of the same challenges as yours.  Squirrels, bikers, 
skateboarders, thousands
 of students, cars, trucks, subway, train, birds, and more.  The 
pup so far is
 doing great, emma could not.

 I wish you luck.  Will you keep Princess as a pet? And will you 
get another
 guide? Just curious.

 Marsha drenth
 Sent with my IPhone
 http://adventureswith2feet4paws.blogspot.com

 On Nov 19, 2012, at 11:58 PM, "Hannah Chadwick" 
<sparklylicious at gmail.com
 wrote:

 Hello all,
 I hope everyone is doing well.  I haven't been posting or 
keeping up
 with everything recently because this is my first quarter at UC 
Davis
 and things have been pretty crazy.  Now that everything is sort 
of
 falling in to place, I wanted to welcome everyone who is new to 
the
 list, the people who have returned, and an update about 
Princess.
 Unfortunately she has not improved much since I last posted 
about her
 work.
 it has been almost a year, and campus is a pretty busy place.  
We have
 a lot of distractions - all the students, over 20,000 bikes, and 
the
 millions of squirrels that we pass every day - so Princess is 
not
 doing so well.  I thought that perhaps being here for over 3 
months
 would help, but it has not, and she continuously walks me in to
 objects, wants to run after the squirrels or students, and seeks
 attention from everyone who says something along the lines of, 
"awww! Cute
 doggie!".
 With all this in mind, I have decided that I will retire her 
because
 of all the stress for her and for me.
 I know that it will be a great loss since we've bonded, but I've 
also
 had a lot of time to get used to this idea.  I don't know when I 
will
 retire her because Pilot has not been very good about returning 
my
 calls, but I do know that it will happen very soon.
 I'm sure many of you have gone through this before, and I just 
hope
 that I won't be too depressed over it.
 Once again I hope everyone is doing well with your guides, and 
happy
 Thanksgiving! :) All the best, Hannah

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