[NAGDU] Joys of Having a Retriever

[S L Johnson]

Hello:

Thirty years ago Rusty, my  male golden caught a live pigeon.  I was on my 
way to church.  As I passed a park, Rusty suddenly began pulling harder than 
he usually did and then he jumped up.  I corrected him and I could hear the 
pigeon making lots of noises as it attempted to get away.  I kept struggling 
with my very stubborn golden to let go of his prize.  Finally I managed to 
correct him enough times that he reluctantly let go and the pigeon flew 
away.  When I finally got to church I had to apologize to the choir director 
for being quite late for the rehearsal before church.  When I told him what 
happened he said, I guess Rusty wanted to bring a live offering to church 
this morning.  That dog was nuts for anything with wings.  Now I live in a 
senior housing development.  My back yard faces the pond.  My previous dog 
Tara loved the ducks geese and other birds.  Now Eva is enjoying her 
feathered friends too.  The ducks are quite bold and are often seen walking 
in our yards and along the sidewalks.  It is quite strange to suddenly 
encounter a string of ducks walking in a line as Eva and I take our walks. 
You just have to love these retrievers.

Sandra
-----Original Message----- 
From: terrie arnold via NAGDU
Sent: Sunday, March 27, 2016 11:29 AM
To: NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users
Cc: terrie arnold ; Tracy Carcione
Subject: Re: [NAGDU] Joys of Having a Retriever

Well I can top this one with something was even more gross and disgusting is 
my current dog Mac who is a poodle had something in his mouth and dropped it 
in the house and when my son came in and said what is that squirrel head 
doing on the floor nobody does the Littles disgusting squirrels bed so that 
is truly truly icky do so so nobody just the head so don't know what 
happened to the body so likely my son was able to pick up the squirrels head 
and throw it outside in the area that the dog doesn't go to so rather have a 
dead bird to pick up those  squirrels head any day

My thoughts for today

> On Mar 27, 2016, at 9:17 AM, Tracy Carcione via NAGDU <nagdu at nfbnet.org> 
> wrote:
>
> Eeoooo!  Oh, those retrievers!
> Echo once brought me a dead squirrel in the backyard.  I could tell by her
> prancing she had some treasure, and I called her and took hold of it to 
> take
> it out of her mouth.  She didn't hang on to it, so it was easy to take 
> away.
> Then I realized what I had hold of had fur and claws, and I threw it down 
> in
> disgust.  Then I took Echo in, and had to come back out with a bag and 
> paper
> towels and find where I'd thrown the thing down.  Yuk!
> Tracy
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: NAGDU [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Alysha via 
> NAGDU
> Sent: Saturday, March 26, 2016 7:50 PM
> To: 'NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users'
> Cc: Alysha
> Subject: [NAGDU] Joys of Having a Retriever
>
> Hi all,
>
> OK, so I have to share an incident that happened to me and Xylon last 
> week.
> When I first brought Xylon home, he had a tendency to pick up lots of 
> things
> when I let him sniff around to park. I was always taking mulch, rocks,
> sticks, etc. out of his mouth. He's gotten a lot better lately, so I've 
> let
> down my guard a little. I took him out for his lunchtime park the other 
> day,
> and he acted perfectly normal. But on the elevator on the way back up to 
> my
> office, he started smacking his lips like he was chewing on something. I
> reached down to check his mouth, but it seemed like it was closed. I,
> somewhat rhetorically, asked him what he was eating. Well, there was 
> another
> man in the elevator with me, and he answered me. "Oh, a dead bird." He
> sounded so dead-pan that I didn't believe him! I kind of laughed and got 
> off
> at my floor. But on my way off the elevator, my foot brushed something on
> the floor. I turned back to the guy and asked if Xylon had really been
> eating something. He said yes, he had a dead bird. The man hadn't noticed
> until I said something. Well, now panic was setting in. Was I going to 
> have
> to touch this bird? How could I get it off the elevator before the 
> elevator
> disappeared? The man suggested that I could pick it up with paper towels.
> Looking back, I probably should have just used a poop bag, but I wasn't
> thinking that clearly. So I ran to the bathroom to get the paper towels, 
> but
> by the time I got back, the elevator was long gone. Horrified by the 
> thought
> of people getting on this elevator to find a random dead bird inside, I
> frantically pushed the call button. Unfortunately, every elevator in the
> building except the right one opened! I eventually gave up and decided to
> find the number for the custodial staff to see if they could take care of
> it. When I got back to my lab and told a coworker what happened, she 
> decided
> to go look. We went back to the elevators, and the correct elevator showed
> up on the first try, but there was no sign of the bird. Someone must have
> picked it up, or maybe it wasn't dead after all. I guess I'll have to be
> more vigilant at park times from now on!
>
>
>
> Alysha
>
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