Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!mips!sdd.hp.com!think.com!yale.edu!yale!bunker!hcap!hnews!203!998!Dan.Kysor From: Dan.Kysor@f998.n203.z1.fidonet.org (Dan Kysor) Newsgroups: misc.handicap Subject: Re: my guidedog Message-ID: <16374@handicap.news> Date: 21 Jun 91 19:19:43 GMT Sender: wtm@bunker.isc-br.com Reply-To: Dan.Kysor@f998.n203.z1.fidonet.org Organization: FidoNet node 1:203/998 - The Dead Light BBS, Sacramento CA Lines: 21 Approved: wtm@bunker.hcap.fidonet.org Index Number: 16374 [This is from the Blink Talk Conference] also margo, what about instructors and the personality question. i am somewhat of an extravert but really don't like hard core dogs. when i had my interview before class with my current dog, i discussed with the field rep. he saw my mellow now retired shepherd and i pointed out that schools usually match me with a hard core/extraverted dog but as he could see from the shepherd, i do just fine with a mellow animal, actually better so what i am trying to get at here is the supposition that to match a outgoing extravert with like dog isn't necessarily the right match. jake, who i know and is in this thread had a simular problem and that routy dog just got him uptight to the point that it effected the overall relationship so i think it depends on the schools view of this matching principle. did any of that make sense? dan -- Uucp: ..!{decvax,oliveb}!bunker!hcap!hnews!203!998!Dan.Kysor Internet: Dan.Kysor@f998.n203.z1.fidonet.org