[nagdu] crowd work

[Rena Seay]

I have to agree with Tracy.  My labs have always done an excellent job in crowds and i tend to work softer dogs.  Ronnie and I were in New Orleans for a work conference the same weekend and a large football game. Our hotel was in the French Quarter which is crazy in the best of circumstances.  You couldn't move the crow with a stick but Ronnie just kept moving.  I was really impressed because every few feet someone would freak out because there was a dog in their space. They would scream, one person spilled their drink on Ronnie (not fun to clean up for me).  None of it phased her, in fact we were leading the office procession of perfectly sighted people. 
Additionally, she is excellent in crowds of kids.  I work with junior high and high school students and we generally roam the halls during passing period (controlled mayham at best). Never misses a beat.  All of the above is simply my personal experience but I've worked three labs and I'm headed in for a new one in about a month.  

Rena A. Seay  Educantional Talent Search   (325)677-1444 x. 3105   ras98r at yahoo.com 

--- On Tue, 2/16/10, Tracy Carcione <carcione at access.net> wrote:

From: Tracy Carcione <carcione at access.net>
Subject: [nagdu] crowd work
To: nagdu at nfbnet.org
Date: Tuesday, February 16, 2010, 8:07 AM

Tami, I don't know where you got the idea that labs wait around to be told
what to do.  Mine certainly don't.  It's true that, when I get a new dog,
I take pains to encourage initiative, if it seems to be somewhat lacking,
but they catch on quick.
Maybe it's that I've lived in the New York City area for more than 20
years now, so I get what a friend calls "pushy urban dogs", but my labs
are great with crowds.  Darned good thing too, as midtown Manhattan has a
lot of them.  Ben does particularly well.  He's very smart, and the more
challenging the situation, the more focussed he gets.
We came into the City for the first time during class at TSE.  That very
same day, the president decided to come to town, and to have some
whooptydoo at the library, right where we were walking by, at lunchtime. 
All the office workers who'd gone out to lunch were prohibited from
returning to their offices, and were milling around everywhere.  Benny
raised the tail flag straight in the air and did his stuff like a pro, and
I realized he was the right dog for me!
Tracy



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