Lindsay Janes Webboard User Reg: 10-24-2005
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I'm disappointed too. I'm wondering who said that guide dogs are not considered "working dogs?" I'm just scratching my head until it goes bald!
Protection dogs and guide dogs have been trained for different things so therefore both are considered working dogs. I'm sure many people who have been on this board for a long time know that. They just have different tasks to perform for their handlers. Not all guide dogs can be "PP" dogs or not all PP dogs can be guide dogs either.
"It's better to be an optimist who is sometimes wrong than a pessimist who is always right"
It is a bit of knowing your audience. When I am on an ACD list or on a herding list, I don't use the term "working dog" as I would here as a working dog on those lists means a herding dog and not bitework. Instead I say bitework so that they understand what type of work I am discussing.
Does not make one type of working any less than the other but it helps to avoid confusion like Joy seemed to have found here.
Mike Arnold Webboard User Reg: 07-09-2004
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To all:
I would simply observe that when we all agree there is nothing to discuss, and there is little chance of learning anything.
The discussion was mostly one that had its 'deltas' in vocuabulary and context.
The training that goes into a K-9 and the training that goes into a proven service dog... The outcomes are goal driven opposites. And if I toss in the idea that the training required to condition some dogs to be balanced pets...
So... I hope cooler heads prevail. On more than one occasion, I have personally discovered I was obnoxious and deaf. A friend introduced me to a new Mensa word: ignoranus: loosely defined as one who is both stupid and an A-H. Sure enough, I looked in the mirror...
Merry Christmas
Freya - Maximus - Brio - Kai
Mike A.
"I wouldn't touch that dog, son. He don't take to pettin." Hondo, played by John Wayne
Thanks Will for the info, good job.
That's what I love about this forum, very little, if any BS.
Just tell it like it is, and when a weed starts to grow, you pull em out! I appreciate it so much.
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