I've heard of these, but have never used one. My Caroline is a lab/golden
cross, and she sheds horribly. I may have to give one of these a try. It
sounds like it would do wonders for her.
Shannon
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Shelley L. Rhodes" <juddysbuddy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, October 13, 2006 11:04 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: O_T Guide dogs in High school
Nope, actually Judson thinks it is an absolutely wonderful feeling. he acts
the same way when my friends who have long nails give him a good back
scratch.
I suspect if you really pushed down on it, and didn't use it the way it was
intended I guess it could do damage.
It is also called a Curry Comb in tack supply shops.
I can describe it if you like.
Basically it is a band of metal, with two leather handles, one at each end,
there is a "latch" on the one end and when you store it, it is in the shape
of a loop with the handles together.
To use it, you unhook it, and it forms a sort of a rainbow shape. One one
side of the metal, is a row of small metal teeth, some blades have teeth on
the other side too, mine doesn't.
To use it,
I zoom groom my dog to stir up the dead hair.
Then I take the sheeding blade, hold it in both hands, and starting at the
shoulder blades, I run it straight down Judson's back and off his tail in
one fluid movement. Imagine scraping mud off something, or for those of us
north ice off a windshield, it appears to be the same action. I go with the
lay of the hair, and once I have his back done, I "close" it and use it on
his legs and his thighs as a "brush" again with the lay of the hair.
Smile.
A really handy dandy tool.
Shelley L. Rhodes B.S. Ed, CTVI and Judson, guiding golden juddysbuddy@xxxxxxxxxxxx Guide Dogs For the Blind Inc. Graduate Alumni Association Board www.guidedogs.com
Dog ownership is like a rainbow. Puppies are the joy at one end. Old dogs are the treasure at the other. Carolyn Alexander
----- Original Message ----- From: "siss52" <siss52@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, October 13, 2006 5:05 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: O_T Guide dogs in High school
Hey!
Does that blade hurt dogs? I mean does it cause them discomfort? Just woondering, since I have never seen one.
Sue S.
----- Original Message ----- From: "solsticesinger" <solsticesinger25@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, October 13, 2006 2:57 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: O_T Guide dogs in High school
Hi.
I was seventeen when I got my first guide. It was the summer before my
senior year in high school, and I was kind of worried about how people would
respond to having a dog in school. Luckily, my experience was pretty good.
No one was cruel to my guide. There was a lot of interest in her, of course,
and people did try to pet and feed her, thinking that I wouldn't notice.
However, the staff was very cooperative, and, by the end of my senior year,
she wasn't so much of a novelty anymore.
Shannon
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Lora" <loravara@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Monday, October 09, 2006 10:59 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: O_T Guide dogs in High school
Although I was sixteen when I got a dog, I'd just graduated high school
and
was off to college. I know my high school would not have been ready for a
dog. They really weren't even ready for it when I started using a cane,
so
I think they would have been very hard on the dog.
Nowadays, I feel guilty about getting a dog. In the past, when I've had a
dog, I've either been in college, and running frantically all through the
day, or working in a job that at least had some travel required, including
trips to other states, and field trips with students.
Nowadays, I sit at a desk all day and stare at a computer screen ... Figuratively, of course. I think it would be boring for a dog.
-----Original Message----- From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Shelley L. Rhodes Sent: Monday, October 09, 2006 9:36 AM To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bksvol-discuss] O_T Guide dogs in High school
I waited till I had graduated before getting my dog for the reasons that you discussed E.
My high school wasn't ready for a blind student and I know they weren't ready for a guide dog.
It worked out.
I got Judson in July after I graduated from HS. and before I net to my undergrad university in August.
Shelley L. Rhodes B.S. Ed, CTVI and Judson, guiding golden juddysbuddy@xxxxxxxxxxxx Guide Dogs For the Blind Inc. Graduate Alumni Association Board www.guidedogs.com
Dog ownership is like a rainbow. Puppies are the joy at one end. Old dogs are the treasure at the other. Carolyn Alexander
----- Original Message ----- From: "siss52" <siss52@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, October 08, 2006 12:56 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: just sent Hero With a Thousand Faces to admin queue
How cruel some kids can be! Had it not been for those kids, your first dog would have worked out.
My best friend in high school got a dog before our senior year, but the school superintendent made her keep him outside in a kennel. The kennel was in the sun during that hot September, and her dog got a heat stroke and died.
Sue S.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Elizabeth and Burton" <thoth93@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, October 08, 2006 11:28 AM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: just sent Hero With a Thousand Faces to admin queue
I really got my first dog at sixteen the summer before my senior year in
high school. My schoolmates drove cars near the dog and slammed on brakes
to make that screechy noise. They came up to the dog and pretended to hit
it or kick it or made loud noises and sudden movements near it to scare
it. By the end of the year, the dog would come home and cower behind the
couch. She went back to Seeing Eye. I went back to Seeing Eye the summer
before my freshman year in college to get my second dog. So I think of
this second dog as the first one I had for a long time.
E.
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