[NAGDU] Parker is a careful boy

[Dan Weiner]

Well I'll admit, at first I thought he might have been distracted by 
something, but fortunately for me and all my body parts--smile I did listen.


Take care,


Dan



On 11/15/2017 3:57 PM, Tracy Carcione via NAGDU wrote:
> 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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