[NAGDU] "Well-trained"

[Tracy Carcione]

I think "well-trained" is affected by expectations.  

To me, "well-trained" means a dog can work with a totally blind person,
without sighted assistance, in a wide variety of situations and in areas the
handler is not familiar with.  If it can do that, it is trained well enough
to work with anyone.

I get the impression sometimes that some trainers expect that the handler
can see a bit, or will have sighted help available, or will not be going to
unfamiliar areas without a sighted person along.  Any or all of these things
may be true for some people, but by no means for all.  They certainly aren't
true for me.

One is an expectation that blind people lead limited, circumscribed lives,
and the other is that we go out and do what we want to do, when we want to
do it. JMO.

Tracy