[nagdu] Amazing dogs?

[GARY STEEVES]

Hello Everyone:

Tracy makes some good points. Bogart is quite far from perfect. Does he guide well. Yes, he guides quite well with a couple of little  faults. I can say this since he ran me into the back of my girlfriend last night while going down stairs. No one fell but we'll be re-working that scenario a lot. No more escullators for awhile Bogart, you're taking the staris slowly and cautiously.  Bogart gets distracted by pigeons and by dogs, depending on the dog. But he guides well. He hasn't ran me into anything in a long time (besides people). He learns so well and can think through a situation  if I give him the time. He is a poodle so he is easily distracted so needs to be verbally, and some times physically corrected. Maybe more than other breeds I don't know.

Bogart does howl but only in the dog park when things aren't going as he wishes with regards to getting said dog to play with him. it will be bark bark bark hoooowl. embarrassing. :)

Personlly I think poodles are more of a handful than other more common breeds. I like it. His personality, like Tracy was saying, makes him great in cities, on subways in crowds. He can be a bit jumpy but then he immediately recovers and gets back to it, a bit like me. :)

You have a lot going on but I agree with the one who says do more obiedience  work. I've noticed of late I have been letting little things slide with bogart so last week I started reworking anything that went wrong and this has brought him into focus a bit better. I must remember that whenever I have time I need to rework any issue to help us both out.

Good luck
Gary

----- Original Message -----
From: Tracy Carcione <carcione at access.net>
Date: Monday, April 23, 2012 8:50 am
Subject: [nagdu] Amazing dogs?
To: nagdu at nfbnet.org

> So Hannah, you think the rest of us all have amazing dogs?  
> That's nice! 
> It seems to me I'm always poor-mouthing my Benny boy.  He 
> has some amazing
> qualities, but he has his faults, too.  And some of them 
> are 2 sides of
> the same coin.  For example, I love his cocky self-
> confidence.  I'm sure
> it helps him cope with the big bad city.  But it also makes 
> him hard to
> correct, since he's so sure he's right in whatever he wants to do.
> 
> Every dog has faults, to some degree or other.  And every 
> person has to
> decide, with every dog, these things:
> Is this fault so serious that I'm unsafe?  Can this fault 
> be fixed, and,
> if so, how?  If it can't be fixed, can I live with it?
> And the ones I can live with, if I must, may not be the same 
> ones you can
> live with, and vice versa.
> Tracy
> 
> 
> 
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