[NAGDU] Your Favorite Dog

Tue Apr 20 19:28:46 UTC 2021

Our Golden Jessie is like that, but if you trip over her or roll the desk chair
back then she moves, but other then that she expects you to walk over her. It's
very annoying and possibly unsafe. 

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My first sheperd was like that, don

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I had a Lab who wouldn't move out of my way.
Fortunately, I got to know her sprawling places pretty quickly.

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Hi, my favourite would have to be my first dog Lena. I walked her when I was
assessed and said right then she was perfect and I wanted her. At that time she
wasn't finished her training so they didn't know if she would make it. I was
glad a few months later, after training with a dog that failed, I was matched
with Lena.

Lena was one smart dog, she learnt in the early stage that I wasn't steady on
ruff ground so if there was a short cut across grass which is the normal way the
dogs go she wouldn't do it. Instead she turned me around and walked back the way
we came until we were level with the path and then she turned down it. The
trainer who was working with us at the time couldn't believe what he was seeing,
he knows of no other dog who had ever done that.

Lena also only had to go to a place once and the next time we went there she
knew exactly where we were going. The only down side to this was she also wanted
the same seat as last time no matter if someone was sitting in it or not. She
did this on the bus all the time and even though I would ask her to find another
seat she would just stand there staring at the person wanting them to move.
After a while most of the regulars got to know us so there were times when I was
climbing onto the bus and I could hear someone explaining that that was the
dog's seat so could they please move.

I worked Lena up until a few days before we had to put her down. She was ten and
I had already started the paperwork for my next dog but she didn't last that
long. The plan for her retirement was to become my dad's dog and since she was
already in love with him I didn't see any problems with that.

Lena was a lab retriever cross. My second dog was a lab, my third dog was a
golden retriever and now my new dog is a lab retriever cross but totally
different to Lena. All through my training the trainer told me Sherlock was a
pure golden retriever however we looked up the schools Facebook page and found a
picture of him as a new born pup and it had his dad as a lab.
Sherlock has the lab sort of head and my sister-in-law who works with dogs says
he is not a pure Golden retriever.

All my dogs have been good in their own ways. My only big issue is the goldens
don't get out of my way when I am walking around the house. Even when I fall
over them they just look at me as if they are asking me why I did that. With the
two labs they always moved out of my way. In fact Lena was so good that she knew
at the blind society who could see her and who couldn't so she would only move
out of the way for the people who couldn't see her and the sighted had to find
their way around her.

>From Shaz.
Canberra, Australia.

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Good morning,
I love to hear our stories about our dogs. So I have some questions. I will
preface it by saying that once while I was training, probably with my first dog,
my instructor said that he believed everyone had a favorite dog, and this would
be true even if you truly love working with each of them. So tell
me:
Who was your favorite dog and why? This would include some of the little things
that made his work so good.
Did you train that dog? If not, from which school did it come?
How long did you have her?
Thank you.
Cindy Ray
cindyray at gmail.com <mailto:cindyray at gmail.com>

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