[nagdu] crowd work

[Margo and Arrow]

My Labs have always taken initiative and partly that's because I expect that 
of them.  I expect them and give them opportunities from the beginning to do 
minor  to major problem solving.  My labs have been good at crowd work.

Margoa ndArrow
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tracy Carcione" <carcione at access.net>
To: <nagdu at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 16, 2010 9:07 AM
Subject: [nagdu] crowd work


> 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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