Nat Geo - Dog Genius

Mark your calendar for Dec. 23rd at 8:00 pm. Canine Assistants (the organization I volunteer with) will be featured. Here's a video clip with some of our trainers and our dogs!

http://channel.nationalgeographic.co...tml?refId=3224

i'll tune in.......some of those dogs look smarter than me! how many hours do you volunteer robin?

That was a good tease.....now I really wanna see the whole thing! (But on that day, I'll be at my sister's and she doesn't have cable. :( )

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Originally Posted by reediculous

i'll tune in.......some of those dogs look smarter than me! how many hours do you volunteer robin?

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To remain an active volunteer, you have to volunteer a minimum of 2 hours a month, do three presentations/events a year, and one class a year (the staff trainers put on 2 hour classes each month).

I generally take a dog on a home visit at least once a month over a weekend. When we have training camp for the recipients, that's 2 weeks long, I'll take a dog home for the two weeks, and bring them to work with me to get work-place experience.

oOOOoo Robin looks awesome. I would love to volunteer for something like that; I can't own a dog in my current home but I can't wait til I can. I will def try to watch that.

Cute Doggies!

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Originally Posted by Spaniard

oOOOoo Robin looks awesome. I would love to volunteer for something like that; I can't own a dog in my current home but I can't wait til I can. I will def try to watch that.

Cute Doggies!

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They do have cuteness overload, but the puppies are a LOT of work. I'm glad I don't work with them much - we don't allow them to ever feel a tight collar around their neck (so they don't learn to pull) and have to run around behind them so that the leash is always loose. And then bend over with treats for heel position - back breaking honestly.

That sling in the last bit of the video? You should see when we have a group of 10 volunteers on an outing, all with slings and puppies going out to eat! I've done that with six week old puppies.

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Originally Posted by rabernet

They do have cuteness overload, but the puppies are a LOT of work. I'm glad I don't work with them much - we don't allow them to ever feel a tight collar around their neck (so they don't learn to pull) and have to run around behind them so that the leash is always loose. And then bend over with treats for heel position - back breaking honestly.

That sling in the last bit of the video? You should see when we have a group of 10 volunteers on an outing, all with slings and puppies going out to eat! I've done that with six week old puppies.

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Too cute, dog training is yet another hobby waiting to happen for me. I'm more than willing to put in the effort; no kids please, but I'll take two puppies :D

Aww I wish we got more than 6 channels on our TV. Sounds like a cool organization though.

Marked it on my calendar, Robin, thanks! :)

Mee too! Can't wait to see the show!!! :)