[gdum-l] Introducing Ludden
Shelley Rhodes
juddysbuddy at velocity.net
Sat Feb 13 14:57:19 GMT 2010
Hi Pat, the official answer from the publicist is no, but apparently she has been known to just pop in at the last minute at graduation, so we shall see. Jim Dugan one of my trainers said she has been known to come at the last minute.
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From: Pat Mitchell
To: Guide Dog Users of Massachusetts
Sent: Friday, February 12, 2010 11:19 AM
Subject: Re: [gdum-l] Introducing Ludden
Hi Shelley,
Congratulations to you and Ludden. Sounds like you are really enjoying him already. Will you get to meet Betty White along with his puppy raisers? Just curious. All the best to you and your great boy!
Pat and Niq!
pat7650 at verizon.net
----- Original Message -----
From: Shelley Rhodes
To: Guide Dog Users of Massachusetts
Sent: Saturday, February 13, 2010 2:21 AM
Subject: Re: [gdum-l] Introducing Ludden
hi Bob it was a black kong, and he destroyed it, he actually chewed the top clean off, and he also finished off one another dog started apparently.
I have a toy for him called a goughnut, which he has tried but has had not destroyed yet, smile. It is a thing that looks like a big rubber bagel, smile. and it is black with a red strip in the middle. I was told basically look for toys with no rough edges or points that he could latch onto and get a grip of.
So if I find he isn't a ball dog, then we might contemplate strong balls.
the goughnuts are at
www.goughnuts.com
----- Original Message -----
From: Bob Hachey
To: Guide Dog Users of Massachusetts
Sent: Thursday, February 11, 2010 5:19 PM
Subject: Re: [gdum-l] Introducing Ludden
Hi Shelley,
So glad to hear that things are going well for you and Ludden. My first guide, Raft,was a hard head and my second one, Jake was a softy like Ludden. I discovered that one the hard way when poor Jake banged me into a pole and I gave him a reflexive and rather hard correction. Poor Jake's tail went down and the trainer apologized to me for not explaining to me how much softer Jake was than Raft. IT took a good bit of reasurance to get Jake going again.
I didn't know that dogs could destroy a Kong! I've had a couple of power chewers who destroyed lots of toys but they were not abel to conquer the mighty Kong! I'm sure you probably know that the black Kong is more durable than the red Kong. Which color did Ludden destroy! And, if a dog can destroy a Kong, what can you give him to play with
Bob Hachey
----- Original Message -----
From: Shelley Rhodes
To: Guide Dog Users of Massachusetts
Sent: Thursday, February 11, 2010 11:34 AM
Subject: [gdum-l] Introducing Ludden
Hi everyone,
I wanted to pen a note from rainy Oregon to say that training here has been going really great, and that I got a big black labrador retriever called Ludden, yes you read that correctly. His name rhymes with sudden, and is Al Ludden's last name. Ludden i discovered yesterday is a sponsored dog which means all of his expenses that the school accrewed while training him have been paid by a very generous donor. the Donor is Betty White, Al's wife.
Smile.
So he is a great dog. He is gentle, easy to handle, not distracted, soft and sensative, but an eager and willing worker, able to handle all that Portland could throw at him. he is a great public transit dog, is not phased by birds, cats, dogs, or children, loud noises, or well practically anything. even the homeless kids and their dogs don't bother him.
I couldn't be happier.
I graduate on Saturday, his raisers are coming to graduation all the way from Colorado, but I am excited to meet them too.
So, smile, the stats. Ludden is 25" tall at the shoulder, and weighs about 72 lbs. He is a very tall and athletic looking lab. He was born in August of 2008 and has a sister in class, Lavish, and a brother Linburg who has already graduated and is a working dog.
Ludden wears a martingale collar, as a chain slip is too severe for him, which is fine for me. a correction for him is a "Ludden careful" while tapping the object, or a "ludden hop up" in serious voice. This retrain had to put the "zingers" away and get out the feather touch, and you know I like this type of dog. He loves toys, bones and a toy we have here called a "goughnut". Ludden is a power chewer however and has caused the demise of several kongs while here at GDB so we shall be staying away from those toys.
We finished our last route in Portland today. We worked downtown to the train station, got on, road the train several stops, got off, walked down along the river, think the promenade on the Charles, smile, and then walked and worked back to the lounge. he did awesome.
Shelley and Ludden.
or lady dog, or luddy lad, or Otter dog.
----- Original Message -----
From: Bob Hachey
To: gdum-l at acb.org ; bscb-l at acb.org
Sent: Thursday, February 04, 2010 10:11 PM
Subject: [gdum-l] Picking up after Your Dog
The following appeared on Boston.com:
Headline: Dog-walking etiquette and the disabled
Date: Feb 3, 2010
""Blind people have enough to contend with. People, please clean up after your dogs." -- Dora Elliott"
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/letters/articles/2010/02/03/dog_walking_etiquette_and_the_disabled/?s_campaign=8315
DID YOU know that people with Seeing Eye dogs - people such as my daughter - can, and do, pick up after their dog's messes? It isn't easy, but they do it.
Now imagine that you are blind and out walking your dog. You can't see the messes people have left while walking their dogs, so you are much more likely
to step in them than other people. Often you might not know it until you have tracked it into your home. Close your eyes and try to clean it off of your
shoes. How do you locate it on your floors?
This week I picked up 40 dog messes at Huron Avenue and Sparks Street in Cambridge. This corner has a post with dog clean-up bags, and a polite reminder.
What more does it take? There are numerous other places throughout the Boston area where this is a problem.
My daughter said, "I am afraid people will think it is me not cleaning up after my dog since I'm blind.'' Bless her heart to have to worry about that, along
with the worry of stepping in dog messes.
Blind people have enough to contend with. People, please clean up after your dogs.
Dora Elliott
Cambridge
© Copyright 2010 Globe Newspaper Company.
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