[NAGDU] the fetch command

[Jenine Stanley]

Yes, retrieve was used by many programs in the past. Another reason why it was dropped was how it was being taught. Many schools, for expedience sake, used the forced fetch training method, which I won’t go into here as I don’t know the exact details of it but it was very physical in nature, as in pinching an ear until the dog took an object. Anyone who actually knows how the Force Fetch was taught back in the day, please chime in. 

Many graduates either didn’t use the command or didn’t use it enough for the dog to be reliable. You think you’d use a command like that a lot but hmmm, maybe not so much, or maybe the dog just wasn’t into retrieving. 

With the clicker and many service dog training techniques coming into favor at various programs, maybe we’ll see Fetch again in a different, much friendlier form. 

> On Feb 18, 2019, at 3:27 PM, Danielle Sykora via NAGDU <nagdu at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Guide dogs were taught to retrieve in the past, but programs discontinued this practice a few decades ago. Essentially, they considered it useful but not essential, and did not think it was worth dropping otherwise good guides because they didn’t enjoy retrieving.
> 
> Danielle, Thai, and Jackie 
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
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>> On Feb 18, 2019, at 2:39 PM, Madison Martin via NAGDU <nagdu at nfbnet.org <mailto:nagdu at nfbnet.org>> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi all, I was reading a fictional book about these kids who visited a guide
>> dog school, and it talked about how the instructor was teaching the dog to
>> fetch a glove that he dropped while he was working the dog in harness. So I
>> was wondering, is this something that guide dogs are actually taught to do?
>> Or do you think that it was just made up for the book? I'm just curious
>> that's all. Look forward to hearing back from anyone who might be able to
>> provide an answer to this! Thanks
>> 
>> Madison
>> 
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