Jewel,
I have a
Great Pyrenees and I am wondering about using a dog that size as a guide. One
of the reasons we have not tried to have our trained as a service dog for my
son is because of the difficulties of traveling with a dog that size. How is
that working for you?
Though I am not certain size is the only issue with keeping a dog away from the
food. My first guide was only 55 pounds and she could steel food from
anywhere. People use to swear the dog could levitate. It was embarrassing,
but now that she is dead I can appreciate the humor more. *smile* Outside of
her food obsession, she was a great guide though I do not think they would pass
her now. She was a very hard dog and they are all about the soft gentle
corrections now.
To bring this back on topic, I am going to get one of the motion detectors for
use in my house. I think it could be very handy. Unfortunetly, I think it
would be illegal to put one of the shock collar ones on my kids. *smile*
Jennifer
From: Bob Kennedy
To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, December 03, 2009 4:43 PM
Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] Inventors ahoy!
That's not a dog it's a small horse... hahaha
Love to see you 2 get on a plane.
----- Original Message -----
From: Jewel
To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, December 03, 2009 5:29 PM
Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] Inventors ahoy!
Tom! I train my own guides and have done so since 1960. My new bloke is a
mastiff so that will
give you some idea how big he is.
I cast my mind back 11 years to when Guido who I retired last weekend was the
same age as Buddy is
now: 13 and a half months: and I reckon that Buddy is even better. He is
going to be, given a bit
more experience and age, a fantastic guide.
This struggle I am having with his helping himself to things on the kitchen
counter or on the table
is render that much more of a battle because I am having to prove that I am
smarter than he is. I
am * almost sure that I am, but he is not going to be defeated without very
definite proof of that,
and, to date, I have not presented that proof!
Jewel
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Fowle" <fo...@ski.org>
To: <blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, December 04, 2009 11:01 AM
Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] Inventors ahoy!
Jewel,
Yeah considering the size of some of the guide dogs I've seen recently I'm
not surprised about Buddy's reach.
One advantage, i think, of the babby monitor idea is that
the correction comes from you, the boss lady, where corrections should
come from, not from some unknown noise maker. but the system made for pets
might be good if it's not too expensive.
Tom Fowle
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