[718] in Humor
HUMOR: Pet News of the Weird
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew A. Bennett)
Tue Feb 7 11:10:26 1995
To: humor@MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 07 Feb 1995 11:05:52 EST
From: "Andrew A. Bennett" <abennett@MIT.EDU>
Date: Tue, 07 Feb 95 10:39:19
From: pug@MIT.EDU (Sharalee M. Field)
October, 1993--Europa Times
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``We will not have him put down. Lucky is basically a damn good guide
dog,'' Ernst Gerber, a dog trainer from Wuppertal told reporters. ``He
just needs a little brush-up on some elementary skills, that's all.''
Gerber admitted to the press conference that Lucky, a German shepherd
guide-dog for the blind, had so far been responsible for the deaths of
all four of his previous owners. ``I admit it's not an impressive
record on paper. He led his first owner in front of a bus, and the
second off the end of a pier. He actually pushed his third owner off a
railway platform just as the Cologne to Frankfurt express was
approaching and he walked his fourth owner into heavy traffic, before
abandoning him and running away to safety. But, apart from epileptic
fits, he has a lovely temperament. And guide dogs are difficult to
train these days.''
Asked if Lucky's fifth owner would be told about his previous record,
Gerber replied: ``No. It would make them nervous, and would make Lucky
nervous. And when Lucky gets nervous he's liable to do something
silly.''
