[NAGDU] guide dog school application requirement question

[mike at michaelhingson.com]

Hi,

First, don't make more of this than necessary. In general, the idea is that
you want to take a new guide home to an environment to which they can become
acclimatized. What any trainer would want is for you to help make the dog's
transition from one environment to another to be as easy and friendly as
possible. Dogs like to, as I describe it, "know the rules".

There is no hard fast situation. Each of us who gets a guide dog has
different circumstances from everyone else. I, for example, received my most
recent guide dog in late February, 2018. Within a week I was off on
airplanes to deliver speeches as well as consulting and thus left my "stable
home". Travel is a way of life for me and I know how to ease a new guide dog
into that environment.

Having said all the above, if you know that once you get a guide you soon
will be moving or going into a school environment you should make sure your
guide dog trainers are aware of this so you and they can best discuss how to
help the new guide adjust. If a guide dog school won't even consider
providing you with a new guide dog simply because you may soon be moving
then that school is not worth its salt. Ultimately you are the one who has
to help your new guide adjust to whatever environment it will be
encountering. It will be your attitude, your confidence and your skills that
will make or break the relationship.

I hope this helps. 


Best Regards,


Michael Hingson

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Subject: [NAGDU] guide dog school application requirement question

What We Expect of Students

Applicants to The Seeing Eye should: Be in a settled, stable home
environment with no move imminent

What do they mean by this; is there loop holes? College students get guide
dogs and their living situation isn't stable going from home to dorm life
and back again several times per year. Sometimes a job is unexpected or last
second.

 

What if you want to move because your apartment is dirty and you feel
unsafe, and it isn't a expected or planned move but your lease is up at the
end of March and you would like to find a new apartment in the same town and
same part of town, but a building that is more secure and clean; you would
be able to use your same routes of travel you used with the first one? Are
you playing with fait and is there a good chance you will be rejected?

Thank you.

Cole Roberts

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