[NAGDU] Parker is a careful boy

[Tracy Carcione]

Good boy Parker, and good boy Dan for listening!  Ain't it pathetic how
sometimes we old hands still don't listen?  But you did.
Tracy


> Hello wonderful two-legged and four-legged friends. Dan and the Parker
> Dog here.
>
> I figured I'd post a story from yesterday which proves that yes, our
> dogs are paying attention and we're so glad they do--smile
>
>
> All right, picture the scene, Dan, the big lug, and Parker, the little
> lug walking back from Dunkin donuts. To do this I go through a parking
> lot, a shopping center, and then cross a service road to an apartment
> complex, walk through that then follow a shoulder until I turn and cross
> home. Anyway, when the sidewalk for the shopping center ends, I step off
> and turn to the left to follow a service road before the apartment
> complex. I listened for cars, "Parker, forwarrd", nothing. "Parker,
> forward," very hesitant step on the part of my hound. Then a gentleman
> standing there, says "be careful there's a ladder right in front of you,
> they're fixing the wall'. All right, i really wouldn't have known, I
> gently asked Parker again and he took me around it, I said "good boy"
> very enthusiastically and the guy in front of the ladder said "Damn
> that's a great dog". So that made me feel good, and reminded me that,
> the environment can change and even in a very familiar place, a route
> I've walked probably one hundred or more times--lol still things are
> there and that's why we're glad our dogs are paying attention, now we
> just have to remember to pay attention to them.
> Just now Guide Dog Handler...
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