Boone-My Anatolian Unicorn

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Looks like a bone to me.

Boone even picks up clothing and gives it to you? That’s phenomenal, a testament to your outstanding training skills and a testament to Boone’s intelligence. Wow. Both of you are incredible.
 
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Baymule said:
Looks like a bone to me.

Boone even picks up clothing and gives it to you? That’s phenomenal, a testament to your outstanding training skills and a testament to Boone’s intelligence. Wow. Both of you are incredible.
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Yup. He hands me anything I point at. Sometimes it’s hard for him because he plants his big old feet on top while picking it up but “back up” is a cue he understands so he works through it…usually 🤣 Sometimes I just get a corner of something I have to yank out from under him 😝
 
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Welp, Boone is definitely a PITA adolescent. My ever tractable, hard working, obedient pup is now a whiny, argumentative, demanding teenager.
He argued when we first got to DR office as he didn’t want to sit still in the waiting room. He quite literally backed up with my leash in his mouth and tried to eat his way through it saying he could leave. He did however, hand me my purse and my glasses, which constantly fall off my head. I wound up taking him out and leaving him with Randy.

We went to his favorite feedstore and he was a very good boy, and enjoyed seeing all his friends, who called out to him as soon as we walked in. Unfortunately, while I was using the restroom, I required both hands to pull my pants up into place and he decided to crawl underneath the wall to introduce himself to the lady in the next stall. Luckily, she was thrilled.

Then we went to the bank to see if we can get a loan to pay off the credit card. All was well, he was a little antsy. I had to keep dropping my glasses on the floor or setting my purse down for him to pick up and hand me because I had to keep his mind busy or he was trying to army crawl around and sniff everything, but all in all he was doing really well…until..

…Some old guy walked into the bank with his poodle on a leash and a large older lab loose, who immediately charged over to which Boone immediately took offense. It was all I could do to hold onto him. They were nose to nose, Boone was roaring, the guy finally came for his dog, which thankfully Boone didn’t hurt and I took Boone outside after apologizing to the loan officer and we’ve been sitting in the car ever since. Randy‘s going in to do the shopping because of the store that was supposed to have it already for us to pick up doesn’t.

I can’t risk this ever happening again. thank God Boone didn’t kill the other dog but a service dog isn’t supposed to do that so I think we’re done with public access with both dogs and I’m just **** out of luck

He’s a good boy, and I was hoping he wouldn’t get more difficult as he matured, but I’m just not confident there’s too many dogs out there that shouldn’t be and if there was an altercation, I might lose him and I can’t do that so he’ll just help me at home and I’ll have to use a walker or a wheelchair from now on when we go places.
 
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Margali said:
I'm glad no one was hurt at the bank! What would be the proper service dog response to another dog charging his human? Truly curious...

Hopefully once he gets past the teenager stage, he can go back to being your in-town service dog.
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A finished Service Dog is not to try to protect its owner or itself.
 
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