<div><font size="2"><font face="verdana,sans-serif">Patricia McConnell ( who I have met and who is a wonderful person) has a lot more time to train than I do. I had a Belgian who will be unnamed who was a door dasher as a young man. He lived with Bassets. (Still does.)</font></font></div>
<div><font size="2"><font face="verdana,sans-serif">We live on a busy street, and near other busier streets</font></font></div>
<div><font size="2"><font face="verdana,sans-serif">One day I borrowed a harness and let the dog wear it for a couple of days. Then I clipped a tracking lead onto it, which is about 36 feet long. I put a knot at 10 feet.</font></font></div>
<div><font size="2"><font face="verdana,sans-serif">I opened the door.</font></font></div>
<div><font size="2"><font face="verdana,sans-serif">The door dasher dashed out for ten feet, hit the end of the line and ended up laying on his side in the grass.</font></font></div>
<div><font size="2"><font face="verdana,sans-serif">We did it one more time.</font></font></div>
<div><font size="2"><font face="verdana,sans-serif">This time as he started to dash I yelled "WAIT!"</font></font></div>
<div><font size="2"><font face="verdana,sans-serif">We did it one more time. He started to dash and I yelled WAIT and he........stopped.</font></font></div>
<div><font size="2"><font face="verdana,sans-serif">He has never, ever ever gone through an open door of any kind again without permission.</font></font></div>
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<div><font size="2"><font face="verdana,sans-serif">I am not sure how this would work for a Basset since they are a lot more stubborn. Maybe it would take ten times, or twenty.</font></font></div>
<div><font size="2"><font face="verdana,sans-serif">My Bassets all know the command WAIT.</font></font></div>
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<div><font size="2"><font face="verdana,sans-serif">It does not mean they pay any attention to it, it just means they know the command.</font></font></div>
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<div><font size="2"><font face="verdana,sans-serif">MomPerson to Nigel, Llewis, Conley and Cooper, who waits.</font></font></div>
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