[nagdu] Questions About Guide Dogs

[Larry D. Keeler]

I think they get curious about what or who is behind those doors!
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tami Kinney" <tamara.8024 at comcast.net>
To: <nagdu at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2011 10:57 AM
Subject: Re: [nagdu] Questions About Guide Dogs


> Buddy,
>
> That's funny. With Mitzi, it depends. If she still wants to go and not
> come home or to the truck or to the hotel room or to the bus stop to
> come home, she will lie through her teeth sometimes. /lol/ If she's
> tired enough, though, she will just take me to the right spot without my
> even asking, which is nice because by the time she's getting worn out,
> I'm dead on my feet. /smile/ So that could be why your dogs will
> sometimes show you the wrong door. They're not ready to go be bored in
> the hotel room, so they're just messing with you? Who knows what goes on
> in those furry heads.
>
> Tami
>
> On Tue, 2011-08-30 at 22:03 -0400, Buddy Brannan wrote:
>> Oh, absolutely! The ability for your dog to find doors in or out is dead 
>> useful. And if you have a dog that can backtrack, all the better. Some 
>> dogs are absolutely phenomenal at this. Leno, my current dog, is quite 
>> good at this. One thing that I find a little amusing, though. All three 
>> of my dogs, when I'm staying let's say in a hotel, will usually find my 
>> room. However, they will very often go to one door early or one door late 
>> first. Has anyone else noticed this tendency, or am I just lucky? Or 
>> holding it wrong? Or something?
>> --
>> Buddy Brannan, KB5ELV - Erie, PA
>> Phone: (814) 860-3194 or 888-75-BUDDY
>>
>>
>>
>> On Aug 30, 2011, at 10:00 PM, Larry D. Keeler wrote:
>>
>> > Also Buddy they can find in or out.  This is good when you go into a 
>> > building or through a parking lot where you've never been before! 
>> > Sometimes they can remember where you go a lot!  For example my wife is 
>> > at University hospital often.  Holly knows the basic route and she 
>> > usually knows whereever I go I will probably need the elevator, 
>> > escalator or one of the many nurses stations along the route.  Whatever 
>> > room she is in, I only have to go there maybe twice and she basically 
>> > remembers it!  That's a big place!
>> > Intelligence is always claimed but rarely proven!
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