Re: strong pup's

[Gina Heitz <brier@oregonsbest.com>]

At 08:00 PM 9/15/00 -0400, Carolyn wrote:
>."  I hate to hem
>and haw to you all, but now I'm confused again about whether I understand
>what "strong pups" really means.  Don't pay any attention to me.  I'll get
>back to you all later, if I figure it out.  Carolyn

Strong pup's:  Strong willed yes. :-)  Strong physical, pulling on the 
leash.  Disobedient un interested in listening to commands, would rather go 
eat the daisy's...

Funny note on this is I was visiting with a good friend this afternoon who 
has two goldens and a lab.  The two goldens are one show lines one field 
lines.  The show line golden has more titles than I can sight a Canadian 
Obedience Trial Championship, American UD, Senior hunter, just missing one 
leg for her master.  She has a lot of drive and is very smart.  The field 
golden is working in the field trial arena and holds I think his Senior 
hunter in hunt test arena.  The lab is as well working in the field trial 
arena.  Anyway these folks have considered raising a pup for Guide Dogs For 
The Blind.  They went to a meeting and were told that all new puppy raisers 
were required to start with labs as they are easier to train.  This is 
probably true for task training and you will find task training a bit more 
trying with golden pup's, but when it's all said and done you will have a 
nice dog that gives you a laugh too. :-)))

Gina