[NAGDU] how fetching.

[Lisa Belville]

Paige comes to me with her Kong, but doesn't like letting go of it.  I 
figure that she does enough for me and she's not overly mouthy with other 
things she's not supposed to have.  She's more of a solitary player anyway.


Lisa Belville
missktlab1217 at frontier.com
IF THE HOUSEWORK IS DONE - THEN THE COMPUTER IS Broken!
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Subject: Re: [NAGDU] how fetching.


> 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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> 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!
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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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