• Tofu@aussie.zone
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    7
    ·
    10 months ago

    be glad this is not a case where failed foster is allowed

    they will remember you when puppy gets a job

    • Alamutjones@aussie.zone
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      5
      ·
      10 months ago

      We DID actually have a failed guide dog as a pet when I was growing up. Wonderful dog, just didn’t like goats

        • Alamutjones@aussie.zone
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          3
          ·
          10 months ago

          You can’t know where a guide dog might live as a working adult. You don’t know who their human will be. If they’re paired with a human in a rural environment, but get distracted in the presence of livestock…

          A distractable dog can’t be trusted to be a safe partner for their human, can they? They test the dogs against a wide variety of environments and stimuli, and if there’s anything that really seems to throw the dog off balance then they can’t be passed through training unless the fault can be corrected.

          Jess never quite got over her goat thing, so she was released from the program.