[nagdu] How long is "successful"

[Tracy Carcione]

True, but I still think it would give some idea of how well a school is 
doing. At least it would give a ballpark number to look at.
If the dog gets seriously ill at a young age, I would not really call that 
successful.
If it's a struggle, but the team stay together, I'd still call it 
successful.  My first dog and I had our problems, but we worked together for 
about 5 years.  I call that successful.  My Ben is not perfect, either, and 
I have to work to keep him in line even now, but we do very well and have 
worked together for 6 years now.  So it can be a struggle, but still 
successful.
Tracy

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Cindy Ray" <cindyray at gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [nagdu] How long is "successful"


>I think "successful" is a very difficult thing to define. What if you had 
>your dog two years and the work had been great, but that dog got sick or so 
>traumatized that it couldn't work anymore. But they were successful up to 
>that point. What if someone works with a dog but it is a struggle the whole 
>time, but they don't say anything to anyone about it. Is that success? I 
>just think success is a little hard to define in black and white terms.
>
> Cindy Lou
>
> On Jun 7, 2013, at 7:03 AM, "Tracy Carcione" <carcione at access.net> wrote:
>
>> Darla asked how long a team has to be out to be "successful".  I'd say at 
>> least 2 years, just to put a number on it.  Or possibly 3; I could argue 
>> either way.
>> I'd be real curious to see numbers from schools of teams graduated, and 
>> partnerships that lasted 3 years or more. I think that should be a pretty 
>> good indicator as to how well the school is doing. I mean, if school X 
>> put out 500 teams, and 300 of them stayed together, that's only a 60% 
>> success rate, and not so good.  But if 400 of them worked 3 years or 
>> more, that's 80% success, which is pretty good.
>> Tracy
>>
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