[nagdu] always taking the dog was guide dogs

Sun Mar 14 12:34:29 UTC 2010

I think part of it is, as gross as it sounds, your dirty clothes smell like 
you.  She adores you, and by taking your clothes, she's got a little piece 
of you.

I have one pet dog who is astronomically better behaved when I go out of 
town if I leave one of my unwashed t-shirts in his crate for him to curl up 
in at the petsitter's house.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Wayne Merritt" <wcmerritt at gmail.com>
To: "NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users" 
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Sent: Saturday, March 13, 2010 11:26 AM
Subject: Re: [nagdu] always taking the dog was guide dogs

> Though my Gucci isn't trained for laundry work, she will pull things
> out of the clothes hamper that I've just put there, sometimes right
> after and other times when I'm in the shower. And then I find a stray
> sock, T-shirt, or other item on the floor as I'm walking back over to
> the dresser for something. She will also pull my socks off the couch
> right after I've taken them off. Really, one day I pulled my socks
> off, turned to put the shoes under my coffee table, and when I turned
> back, not 5 seconds later, the socks were gone. She's good. One of her
> classic clothes relocation incidents happened when we were still in
> training in fall of 2008. I had dropped a pair of socks one day, and
> though I found one almost immediately, I didn't find the other one. At
> that time I didn't know about her clothes relocating tendencies. So I
> looked all around the place for that stray sock, and even brought my
> instructor and one of the house maids into look for the sock with no
> result. It wasn't until I was packing to leave the next day, when I
> was pulling stuff out of the crate she had been using for the last
> week or so, that I found the stray sock in the corner of the crate.
> I'm sure that when I looked at her, she had this total blank look on
> her face like, "What? I didn't do anything." I sat back and laughed. I
> think somehow I knew that she was going to be different than my first
> guide. though my first guide would have moved clothes, he would not
> have stolen a stray sock and kept it for his own benefit. I'm
> convinced that Gucci does htis mainly to be sarcastic and to prove
> that she can. It doesn't matter that I slap the hamper and tell her
> no, she will still pull things out for her and my own enjoyment, or i
> should say for her enjoyment of seeing me go, "Now where did I put
> that thing?" That's a thinking dog for you, grin. I also have to be
> mindful of where she is and where I drop clothes that i'm pulling out
> of the dryer, lest she get a hold of something and relocate it
> somewhere else, grin. Sometimes I'll put her on the tie down chain to
> try and prevent this from happening, only to have her steel a stray
> sockt that I missed and take it somewhere, grin. I have to give her
> credit though, she knows to relocate things to be in my more frequent
> walking paths so that I'll step on it and then do a doubletake. The
> very few times that she's made messes in the apartment, she's done
> them in places that are just outside of my normal walking paths, as if
> she's saying, "hahahaha, this shows you not to neglect me a park time
> or take me out later than usual." that devil, grin.
>
> Wayne
>
> On 3/10/10, Tamara Smith-Kinney <tamara.8024 at comcast.net> wrote:
>> Rox,
>>
>> /lol/  Mill'E is too, too funny!  I wonder if Laveau will pick up some of
>> those ways of entertaining herself?
>>
>> I did some starter teaching with Mitzi on laundry-related tasks, but she
>> just used what I taught her to mess with me or to invent new games.  So 
>> we
>> were entertained, and I didn't have to worry about really training her to 
>> do
>> actual useful tasks or anything.  /grin/  I keep threatening to do the 
>> same
>> with Daisy, again to keep her amused.  But I get lazy...  Huh.  We all 
>> have
>> cabin fever on top of spring fever...
>>
>> I love the towel snapping. /grin/  Are you sure she doesn't think she's 
>> your
>> teenage brother or something?
>>
>> Mitzi invented a new game with her ball last night.  She stood on the 
>> edge
>> of my bed and bounced it to me so I could catch it and bounce it back. 
>> That
>> strange, quirky mind of hers will never cease to amaze me.  /smile/
>>
>> Tami Smith-Kinney
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On 
>> Behalf
>> Of The Pawpower Pack
>> Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2010 1:16 PM
>> To: NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users
>> Subject: Re: [nagdu] always taking the dog was guide dogs
>>
>> Lyn,
>>
>> Mill'E's favorite chore ever! is doing laundry.  Specifically-- she
>> loves emptying the dryer, then crawling in and taking a nap in the
>> warm dryer once it's empty.  She has found ways to keep laundry
>> entertaining; she pulls towels out, and smacks me with the end; same
>> with blue jeans.  She has also figured out how to nudge all the small-
>> clothes into a pile and take them out in bunches rather than one by
>> one.  She loves laundry!
>> I am lucky because I have one "pet" dog-- my twelve-year-old golden
>> Bristol so I already have to look for pet-friendly housing and the
>> landlords don't seem to care.  I do find that it makes things less
>> intense for the dogs if they can have time to just be a dog.  All of
>> my dogs have a fantastic work ethic and love to work.  I want to keep
>> it that way.
>>
>> Rox and the Kitchen Bitches
>> Bristol (retired), Mill'E SD. and Laveau Guide Dog, CGC.
>> "It's wildly irritating to have invented something as revolutionary as
>> sarcasm, only to have it abused by amateurs." -- Christopher Moore
>> pawpower4me at gmail.com
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