[nagdu] "Find" command was Critical blind people

[Lora]

My guide finds my exact seat without a command. If I go to  use the
bathroom and return to the same room he will find the chair I was
sitting in. He may be like one seat off but honestly for not training
hom at all in that besides finding one chair at TSE that is good for
only having him for about six weeks.

On 7/31/10, Katrin Andberg <katrin at maplewooddog.com> wrote:
> I too can't believe that people don't think dogs can do a "find" command.
> That was one cue that James knew for so many varied situations and things
> and it helped me out tremendously.  He could find exit and entrance doors,
> he could find stairs, elevators, escalators, he could find people by name
> that I'd taught him, he could find the vehicle we came in in a parking lot
> didn't matter what vehicle it was he would find whichever one someone drove
> us in, he found seats, he could find places we went to often.  If I left the
> house and said to him, "Let's find CVS" or "We're going to David's" he knew
> exactly where we were off to and while of course I paid enough attention to
> make sure he wasn't' taking me on a joy ride he did know how to get many
> places no problem.  In Boston he could find South Station from many
> different places, which was very helpful on certain occasions.  He also had
> a cue for finding the last place we were at, once in Penn Station in NY I
> had been asked for assistance to take James outside to potty and then the
> station attendant who had walked us out up and left us out there before I
> could tell her I needed help getting back.  I didn't have a real clue of
> where we were or how to get back to the specific seating area where we were
> to be escorted to our connecting Amtrak train from, so after James had
> pottied, I put his harness back on, picked up the handle walked him towards
> the inside door and said, "Find our seat."  And he absolutely did.  We had
> to go down a floor via a stair case, and across a long expanse into a small
> room and he found "our seat".  Saved me a lot of trouble in that particular
> situation.  Dogs can do a lot more than some people give them credit for,
> you just have to teach them and it's amazing how well they can figure things
> out.
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> Katrin & James (retired)
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> Katrin Andberg
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>  <mailto:katrin at maplewooddog.com> katrin at maplewooddog.com
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Lora