[nagdu] shorelining

Tue Mar 10 06:19:14 UTC 2009

Hmm...  Mitzi likes weaving through crowds for some reason, so long as she
can dance around the people and keep going, say a group chatting and moving
around in a wide grocery store aisle or on the sidewalk.  A lot of
congestion, with few spaces to get past slow-moving meanderers, seems to
exhaust her fairly quickly, and she can get a little careless about
clearance and start showing signs of frustration.  Which is how I tend to
feel in the same situations when I'm doing my own navigating -- with or
without sight.  When we find ourselves in that kind of setting now, I focus
really hard on relaxing and breathing and just going with her so that I'm
not transferring.  We haven't had to deal with much crowding during the
winter, but now that the rest of the mole people are popping their heads
above ground, we'll see how we do.  I really want to go to some of the
farmer's markets and street fairs and the like this year instead of skirting
the edges to get her used to the idea.

Tami Smith-Kinney

-----Original Message-----
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Sent: Monday, March 09, 2009 11:21 AM
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Subject: Re: [nagdu] shorelining

Perhaps, she a little bit British. Belle, sometimes think she should walk
down the left-hand side of a side walk. I frankly worry more about them
working properly through crowds of people and not trailing with their nose,
than whether the are working more left or right.

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Subject: Re: [nagdu] shorelining

At Leader, we were taught if we were walking along the edge of a street 
where there is no sidewalk to teach "Follow the curb". If we were walking 
along a road such as in rural travel, "Follow the shoulder".

I do have difficulty, as Bailey is an extremely left-walking dog and it is 
difficult to get her to follow the right side when shorelining. She also 
tends to walk down the left side of the sidewalk, the left side of the hall,

etc. This can create problems.
Sherri
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jenine Stanley" <jeninems at wowway.com>
To: "'NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users'" 
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Sent: Sunday, March 08, 2009 7:50 PM
Subject: [nagdu] shorelining

> Julie asked about how different programs train for shorelining.
>
> I can tell you what GDF does these days.
>
> There is a lecture about the "straight line" concept which explains 
> how
> the
> dogs are taught to walk just left of center on a sidewalk. Then, there is
> another short lecture and individual teaching about shorelining or country
> travel.
>
> We always worked a left shoreline on country walks, those without
> sidewalks.
> GDF does have commands "over left" and "over right" which mean that the 
> dog
> should move over that direction slightly but the command I was taught to 
> use
> when working a road without sidewalks where I need to shoreline was "stay
> left" or "stay right".
>
> They began teaching a right shoreline as a test back in the mid '90's. 
> My last two classes, 2005 and 2008, it was part of class.
>
> I find that where I live, due to curving road and poor lines of sight 
> for drivers, it's safer to work the right side of several roads. My 
> instructor put a lot of work into his dogs doing right shoulder work, 
> as we call it, because he said it is the harder of the two shoreline 
> methods to teach and reinforce. I have to say that Swap is extremely 
> good at it too.
>
> These shorelining techniques can also be used to navigate parking 
> lots.
>
> I think the country walks, especially during the home training part of 
> my recent training with Swap, are the most exhausting for me. In the 
> beginning, until you learn the dog's moves and trust him or her to 
> keep that perfect alignment with the edge, it takes a lot of 
> monitoring.
>
>
>
> Jenine Stanley
> jeninems at wowway.com
>
>
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