[NAGDU] how fetching.

[Nancy VanderBrink]

My current dog, Doc loves to fetch - or sometimes play keep away lol.
I used to hide his toy when he was younger and he loved the game.  I can say "go get a toy" or "find it" and he'll go looking.
At almost 10, he doesn't play as hard as he used to but he still has fun i think.
Never thought of him picking up things, lol my husband's lab will bring an occasional sock though.

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> On Mar 17, 2017, at 10:17 AM, Cindy Ray via NAGDU <nagdu at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> My golden retriever would fetch about three or four times, and then the game
> was up. He would either say, "You threw it; get it yourself." Or "It's my
> turn to play with it so forget it."
> Cindy Lou Ray
> cindyray at gmail.com
> 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: NAGDU [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Lisa Belville via
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> Cc: Lisa Belville <missktlab1217 at frontier.com>
> Subject: Re: [NAGDU] how fetching.
> 
> Dan, I heard the Seeing Eye taught fetching for years but many of the
> trainers found the physical demands of teaching fetch too taxing.  It could
> also be that it took time away from training other things as Cindy said.
> 
> Ironically, all three of my dogs, while retrievers don't like to do a
> traditional fetch.  Paige loves getting her Kong when I throw it, but
> getting her to give it back is still an iffy proposition.
> 
> 
> Lisa Belville
> missktlab1217 at frontier.com
> IF THE HOUSEWORK IS DONE - THEN THE COMPUTER IS Broken!
> ----- Original Message -----
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> Subject: [NAGDU] how fetching.
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> 
>> Hello, beautiful people.
>> 
>> I have a question, weren't guide dogs trained at one time to fetch, or to 
>> be more precise, to retrieve fallen objects. One of my best friends had a 
>> guide dog I remember a long  time ago that did it, and quite well 
>> actually.
>> 
>> So when did the fetch command stop being used, is it still being trained 
>> anywhere, and how feasible would it be to work on training a current guide
> 
>> dog to do this?
>> 
>> 
>> I doubt I will actually follow through with the last part of that---lol 
>> but it does sound like a useful skill to have..
>> 
>> 
>> Yours sincerely,
>> 
>> Dan the man'
>> 
>> 
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