[nagdu] Did anyone watch the program last night on PBS

[Tamara Smith-Kinney]

Interesting.  Only, I always consider it's more my responsibility to keep my
dog happy.  She has a pretty high-stress job, after all, so I believe it's
up to me to keep things balanced for her.

She makes me very  happy, too, but I consider that to be just a bonus for
me.  /smile/

Tami Smith-Kinney

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I watched it.  I thought it was interesting, though the training seemed
much less intense than guide dog training.
They didn't really seem to match dogs and people.  They just let them mix,
and pick each other out.  I was wondering if that would work with guide
dogs.  But then, I need a dog who can work in the big city and not get
stressed about it.  Not just any dog could do it, I think.
On the other hand, TSE had 2 dogs in mind for a friend of mine, and they
let her try one of them out on the leisure path.  She decided that dog was
too soft for her liking, and chose the other.

It seemed odd to me that the dogs lived at the school while they were
being raised, or that's how it seemed to me.  How did they learn about
home things, like vacuum cleaners and such?  Was that why one of them was
so stressed, when the family took it out to stay elsewhere one night?
I thought it was good that they showed how it was after the people went
home.  For some people it worked out well, and for others it turned out to
be a lot more work than they thought.  And for some it just plain didn't
work out.

I really didn't like a comment in the beginning, that the dog is
"responsible for the person's happiness."  A dog can make a person happy,
but the dog isn't responsible for the person's happiness.  And it worries
me, this idea of putting one's emotional well-being on a dog.  Ben is my
6th dog.  Dogs don't live as long as humans, sadly.  What happens to
someone who is counting on the dog for emotional well-being, when that dog
inevitably dies?  Seems like a recipe for misery, to me.

I didn't get much sense that the people really needed their dogs, either,
except for the seizure alert dog.  The others didn't seem to be using them
a lot for necessary tasks, not like Rox.  But I could have missed
something.  The program was supposed to have descriptions, but I didn't
have them on my broadcast.



Tracy

> it was a good program and showed how other assistance dogs are trained.
> there were kids and adults being trained with service dogs that appeared
> to
> mostly assist with seizure stuff and mobility stuff.
>
> Margo and Arrow
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>>I am just wondering did anyone watch the broadcast last night on PBS, I
>>thought it was great though.
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