[nagdu] tripping on bones

[Tamara Smith-Kinney]

Albert,

Training the dog is easy.  Training the partner -- impossible!  /lol/  Mine
is super organized, so I hardly ever trip over his shoes.  Unless he's
really busy and distracted, which means I'm usually running around in shared
busy distraction...  So then I manage to find the shoes and trip on them.
/lol/  When I was first losing my vision, I was still living with my
then-husband, who has a pretty strong case of ADHD, only he doesn't like to
admit that it's a problem for anyone.  Yikes!  He's also super type A and on
the go and fairly agititated on a regular basis.  Which means he is
virtually incapable of picking something up and not putting it down
immediately where it is a problem for, say, any blind person living in the
house.  Never did get him trained!

Now if I could train my current partner to not be such a sucker for my
poodle!  He's worse than the general public at falling for those dark,
almond eyes of hers!  I've finally had to decide that he is simply a good
opportunity to do some distractability training with her.  /smile/  Which
has worked, oddly enough.

Never again will I allow him to take the treat the bank tellers give her,
though!  I usually pocket it and take it to the car to share between Mitzi
and Daisy once we're all safely settled in.  But when Daisy's Dad took the
treat, he carried it loosely in his hand down at his side -- exactly as I
used to carry a "smelly treat" to teach Mitzi to heel!  The results were not
pretty.  /lol/

Tami Smith-Kinney

-----Original Message-----
From: nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
Of Albert J Rizzi
Sent: Monday, December 07, 2009 7:03 AM
To: 'NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users'
Subject: Re: [nagdu] tripping on bones

LOL, great topic.  Is there anyone out there who in addition to the nyla
bone topic, could lend advice on how to get my partner to stop kicking his
shoes off and leaving them any old place he chooses? If we can get the dog
to put his toys away maybe we could teach the two legged puppies as well.
Lol.

Albert J. Rizzi, M.Ed.
CEO/Founder
My Blind Spot, Inc.
90 Broad Street - 18th Fl.
New York, New York  10004
www.myblindspot.org
PH: 917-553-0347
Fax: 212-858-5759
"The person who says it cannot be done, shouldn't interrupt the one who is
doing it."



-----Original Message-----
From: nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
Of Allison Nastoff
Sent: Sunday, December 06, 2009 11:04 PM
To: nagdu at nfbnet.org
Subject: [nagdu] tripping on bones

Hi list,
I hope this isn't too dumb and off topic for this list, but I 
feel like I am always tripping over Gilbert's nylabones.  I don't 
remember tripping over bones when I had pets, probably because 
they chewed the rawhide bones, and did not leave them unattended 
until they were gone (smile).  Therefore I knew where the bones 
were by the sound of the dog crunching it.  But with Gilbert, we 
use nylabones, and he likes to chew on them, as well as run all 
around the house and randomly drop them for me to trip over them 
and scrape up my feet on the rough edges.  I was just wondering 
if this is something that drives you crazy with any of your guide 
dogs.  Can you do anything like train your dog to only chew on 
bones in a certain area so you know where they will be, or is 
this just part of life when you have a guide dog? I'm interested 
in your thoughts.  Thanks.
Allison and Gilbert

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