[nagdu] Show on dog training

[Tracy Carcione]

Toni, you're quite right, of course.  I was getting my universities
confused.  It's associated with the U Penn vet program, which is reputed
to be one of the best in the country.

One of the things the guest said is that the US has been importing a lot
of working dogs from Eastern Europe, because they've maintained working
lines, while we've gone into pet and show lines. But the Penn program is,
as I understood it, working to improve working lines here, so we can breed
and train our own detection dogs.  Which made me wonder if that will also
help improve guide dog lines, because it's important to get fresh genes
into a line sometimes.  I know career change dogs can go into detection or
search and rescue, or other service, so, if they get this new program
going, maybe some of their career change dogs might come into guide work? 
Even though the kind of dog needed for each kind of work is quite
different, as I understand it.
Tracy

> Hello!
>
> The training dog center is associated with the University of Pennsylvania
> not Penn State University.
>
> Toni
>
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> Subject: [nagdu] Show on dog training
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> Today's Fresh Air on NPR is about the Penn State Working Dog Center, which
> is starting a new training program, mostly for detection and search and
> rescue dogs.
> They will work on creating better tests to see if a puppy will be
> successful, among other things.
> They will also be bringing in pups to train and test during the day, then
> the pups go home to their foster families at night.
> I wonder, if guide dog schools did that, if dogs would be ready sooner, or
> dropped earlier, or if a dog needs a certain maturity to become a reliable
> guide.
> Tracy
>
>
>
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