[Critique Group 1] Leonard's comments on Cleora's sub. for Sept.

[tuchyner5 at aol.com]

Did he learn it better. 



My dogs learn from each other.  



Unfortunately, they didn’t learn good things.  



This is an interesting  vignette, 



described in a minimal amount of words. 



Nicely done.




 



Cleora sub for September




 



 


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Learning Experience



by C. S. Boyd



When I was in my teens, I ran barrels in therodeo contests each year. No, I didn't actually run. The barrel racers rodetheir horses around 3 barrels. The object was to direct the horse around eachbarrel in turn without turning it over.



I had barrels set up for the purpose of trainingin the area behind the stables where we kept our horses. One afternoon afterschool, I took my thoroughbred Queeny out to practice.



As we came around the second barrel, I noticedKing, my quarter horse, standing at the back of his lot watching us. I didn'tthink much of it until the next day when I took him out to train on thebarrels.



To my surprise, he immediately started as if heknew what to do and ran the barrels exactly as Queenie had done. I can't besure, but it certainly seemed that he had learned from watching his mate, and Ilearned that letting a horse watch another was a method of training. So, I rodehim down to a nearby farm where another trainer was working out, and let him watcha veteran barrel racer practice hoping he would learn the more skilledtechnique of the veterans racer.



 




 


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