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Photo by Marie L. McLeod
By Marie L. McLeod
Reporter
Entertainment at A&M doesn’t al
ways occur on a stage. Many A&M
students have been amused by the
performances of an entertainer
they’ve seen on campus who per
forms many feats from catching a
Frisbee to a trick called “Bang.”
Sitting attentively at his “spot” in
front of Nagle Hall, the entertainer
awaits commands from his owner,
Jim Chesshir, as many students sit
anticipating his next trick.
“Do you want to play Frisbee?”
Chesshir says to Beau, his 4-year-old
registered golden retriever.
Excitedly, Beau goes to his owner,
who has a Frisbee in his hand. Ches
shir throws the disc and says, “Catch
the Frisbee, Beau.”
As many students watch in
amazement, silendy cheering him
on. Beau takes off, keeping a close
eye on the Frisbee until he snatches
it with his mouth. He then proudly
carries it back to his master, sits and
gives the Frisbee back.
After the Frisbee is put away,
Chesshir turns to Beau and says,
“Bang.”
Beau immediately falls down, rolls
over and plays dead for onlookers.
Chesshir, who earned a master’s
degree in Wildlife and Fisheries Sci
ences in May, says while he attended
A&M, he brought Beau with him
when he needed to see a professor.
He says he would tell Beau to go to
his spot, the left concrete banister of
the stairs leading into Nagle Hall,
and then would tell him to stay.
Upon Chesshir’s return, usually
about 20 minutes later, he would
take Beau to a nearby fountain to
swim, a privilege Beau enjoys, he
says.
There, too, he would entertain
many as he followed Chesshir’s com
mands. He would dive when told,
catch the splash and get out upon his
command, Chesshir says. Beau
would not shake off the water until
he saw his master do a wrenching
motion with his hand, he says.
“He’s got an incredible vocabula
ry,” Chessir says. Beau knows many
tough tricks outside of the basic ones
like “sit” and “stay,” he says. Beau is
able to follow hand signals as well as
verbal commands.
To train his dog, Chesshir says he
used the book “Water Dogs,” by
Richard Welters, for guidance. The
training method he applied was de
veloped at a Seeing-Eye-dog labo
ratory, he says.
Laboratory researchers identified
critical periods of a dog’s mental de
velopment, he says. Two periods
take place during the first 49 days of
a dog’s life, he says.
On the 49th day, the beginning of
the third critical period, it is vital to
remove the puppy from its litter be
cause that’s when a “pecking order”
begins and personality development
takes place, Chesshir says. There
fore, he says, he got Beau when the
puppy was 49 days old.
The last two critical periods start
on the seventh week and continue
through the 16th week, he says.
That is when the hard-core training
i cakes place, he says.
He says the training is like pro
gramming a mind; there is a need
for repetition, consistency and asso
ciation.
While the dog is on a leash, one-
syllable commands should be used
repeatedly and consistently, he says,
stressing the importance of using the
same word each time.
Along with a verbal command, a
hand signal should be used allowing
the puppy to associate the two, he
says. Eventually, it will respond to ei
ther command, Chesshir says.
Hand signals are vital to a hunting
dog, since they enable the owner and
dog to remain quiet in a hunting en
vironment, he says.
In order to learn its commands,
the puppy needs to spend a lot of
time with its master, Chesshir says.
He says he felt fortunate because
when he first got Beau, he was doing
field work as an environmental tech
nician and was able to bring Beau
with him. That allowed them a lot of
dme together, he says.
“It is important to work with the
puppy on a daily basis,” he says. “I
try to take him everywhere I go.”
He says he takes Beau running
with him freauendy. But unlike most
dogs. Beau doesn’t need to be on a
leash beacause he stays close by
Chesshir’s side. The only drawback
to taking Beau, Chesshir says, is that
he knows when they are on the final
stretch of the course and sprints it —
leaving his master in the dust.
Beau, described by his owner as “a
friendly dog and fellow Aggie,” has
spent a lot of time on campus enter
taining students and making friends.
Beau is defintely an Aggie — he
wears a Texas A&M collar bought
for him by Chesshir’s wife. La Dean,
Class of ’86, and he even has met Re
veille.
When Chesshir says, “If you’re an
Aggie, bark,” Beau sits up proudly
and barks.
Court rules cigarette maker
must disclose ingredients
AUSTIN (AP) — The makers of
Lucky Strike cigarettes must disclose
their secret ingredients to a woman
who claimed 36 years of smoking
“Luckies” killed her husband, the
Texas Supreme Court ruled
Wednesday.
The court rejected American To
bacco Co.’s request to overturn Aus
tin State District Judge Peter Lowry’s
January order forcing the company
to release the ingredient list sought
by Nadia Leanora Dyer.
The Austin woman has sued
American Tobacco in jcpnnection
with the lung-cancer death of her
husband Gerald Wayne Dyer, who
was 62 when he died last year.
Lowry’s order says that only Mrs.
Dyer’s attorney and expert witnesses
can see the ingredients.
American Tobacco argued that
even that limited disclosure amounts
to a “drastic ruling.” According to
court records, the company did not
want to list the ingredients as any
thing more specific than “flue-cured
tobacco, air-cured tobacco, oriental
tobacco, humectants, proprietary
flavoring and paper wrappings.”
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