[nagdu] teaching retrieving without encouraging scavenging

Debby Phillips semisweetdebby at gmail.com
Wed Jul 22 02:38:34 UTC 2015


Vivianna, that is not why Seeing Eye stopped teaching the Fetch 
command.  It is a difficult thing to teach, it ruled out some 
dogs that would have otherwise made wonderful guides, it is 
physically hard on instructors, as well.  Plus there were things 
that at least Seeing Eye felt were more important, like 
intensifying the training for traffic.  I miss the Fetch command, 
but my third dog was the most excellent at it.  I could drop 
something and she would come and pick it up for me and give it to 
me.    Blessings,    Debby and Nova




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