[nagdu] 2 dogs around the house

[Nicole B. Torcolini]

Rox,

    I cannot help but laughing.  Lexia pokes me with her nose when she wants 
me to get up, but she has not learned to steal my blankets yet and hopefully 
won't.  Once I was talking to someone who had a dog who was career changed 
out of being a service dog for the deaf because it was thought that the dog 
was part wolf.  Anyways, the dog was far enough into the training that it 
had been tought to wake up its owner by shoving the person out of bed when 
the alram clock rang.  So the person could not ignore the alrm clock.

Nicole and Lexia

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From: "The Pawpower Pack" <pawpower4me at gmail.com>
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Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2010 1:51 PM
Subject: Re: [nagdu] 2 dogs around the house


> Hi Ioana,
>
> my husband and I have four dogs between the two of us.  One of my dogs  is 
> a bit of a loud mouth but I don't know if she's influenced any of  my 
> other dogs to be loud.  My dogs will all bark if someone comes to  the 
> door but then they all run to get me.
>
> I do notice that younger dogs watch the older ones and copy them 
> sometimes.
> I am Deafblind and Mill'E does hearing dog work for me at home.  One  of 
> her "jobs" is to wake me up in the morning. I'm a hard sleeper so 
> sometimes she needs to get creative.  If I'm really tired and she  can't 
> do it any other way, she removes the covers and takes the  pillows from 
> under my head.  Laveau, my guide dog has learned this  trick from Mill'E 
> and this morning I was awakened at 6 am to a  Doberman removing my pillow 
> and a Golden removing my blankets.  My  dogs also enjoy doing obedience 
> games together.  I do have pretty  strict rules for how things like 
> feeding times work so not to cause  drama.
> I really enjoy having more than one dog and I think my dogs enjoy  having 
> other dogs for company.
>
>
> Rox and the Kitchen Bitches
> Bristol (retired), Mill'E SD. and Laveau Guide Dog, CGC.
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