[nagdu] teaching retrieving without encouraging scavenging

[The Pawpower Pack]

In my experience, retrieval-based tasks have very little to do with scrounging or food refusal.  Personally, my best retriever is also the best at refusing to scrounge.  
She has, in the past, picked up cooked bones when a box of chicken wings fell on the floor and I fully trusted her to give them back to me.  She has also retrieved wrapped packages of raw meat.  
She is 13 and is still retrieving my shoes and her water bowl and whatever else I might drop every day. 


 Rox and the kitchen Bitches: 
Mill'E, Laveau, Soleil
Pawpower4me at gmail.com
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> On Jul 21, 2015, at 9:38 PM, Debby Phillips via nagdu <nagdu at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> 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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