[NAGDU] how fetching.

Fri Mar 17 19:59:25 UTC 2017

After having first a Golden Lab cross, then a pure Lab, and now another 
Golden Lab Cross I have to agree.  labs are sweet, but there's something 
about that Golden personality, not that they can't be mischievous, but their 
default personality seems to be to be sweet and pleasing.  Maybe next time 
around I'll request a pure Golden and I'll know for sure.

Lisa Belville
missktlab1217 at frontier.com
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>I want another Golden. I really, really do.
> Cindy
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> Cindy, that is how my goldens are. Throw things three or four times and 
> they
> lay down and occupy themselves. I think it is just a golden thing, smile.
> Not that there aren't golden who will play and play then drop over in
> exhaustion, now. But normally my goldens have been short players, all 
> three.
>
>
> Warm smile,
> Becky who loves her goldens
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> 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
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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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