[nagdu] statement re: ownership and qeustions re: schools policies

Angie Matney leadinglabbie at mpmail.net
Sat Feb 28 17:07:42 UTC 2009


Hi Merry,

Jenine's description of food at GDF sounds like what I experienced at Seeing Eye a little over a year ago. At least one person in my class was trained to give food rewards in certain instances. I was not, and it was not a part of over-all class training.

Angie with Yani

On Sat, 28 Feb 2009 09:19:02 -0500, Jenine Stanley wrote:

>Merry, 

>I can answer the GDf food question for you. 

>We do not use food in most training situations, i.e., daily class work. We
>do introduce the use of food for solving problems or teaching certain
>behaviors, along with how not to use food and the fact that food should be
>tapered off in favor of praise. 

>Some instructors may, with some teams, use food or even introduce the
>clicker, for specific issues, but it's not part of overall class training. 








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