[nagdu] ranting

[Lora]

I did switch the food to Purina DCO to correct Trice's stool issues and it
has helped concerning the consistency, but not frequency. At least now he is
not having accidents. I used the gentle leader to work on him pulling and
his pulling is pretty good now. I am working with my vet who is really good.


GDB and TSE don't seem to have this bad of attitude toward their graduates.
I'm considering going with these schools for my next dog.

I will be switching Trice to a nonprecription diet at the end of next month
I believe. I'm really considering switching to Wellness. Leader Suggested
this food and I've done alot of research on it. My vet suggested the DCO and
I wanted to try that food first since I had already started switching him to
that food. I can't really tie Trice down at work due to my desk format. It
is not only at work that he barks at stuff but almost everywhere we go
including in the classroom. It has got to the point where he barks at least
3 times a day. I filled out the follow up sheet that leader dogs gave me and
said the suggestions they gave although I use all the time don't seem to be
working.

On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 1:35 PM, Albert J Rizzi <albert at myblindspot.org>wrote:

> At the gdf we were told it was ok to use the gentle leader to get better
> attention and focus out of the dog. It was to be used as a training tool,
> to
> correct bad habits, but that once corrected, we were to go back to the
> standard harness and lead set up.  I found the gentle leader to be highly
> effective. Though I caution you in that the snout of a dog has many more
> nerve endings then does the neck so a gentle correction is usually very
> effective and anything more could be overly excessive and a bit painful.
>
> Albert J. Rizzi
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> doing it."
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
>  Of Nicole B. Torcolini
> Sent: Saturday, October 17, 2009 3:18 PM
> To: 'NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users'
> Subject: Re: [nagdu] ranting
>
> Just out of curiosity, does the gentle leader help his behavior or just
> keep
> him from misbehaving?  Which school did he come from?  At GDB, we were told
> that we could use the gentle leader to gain more control over our dogs, but
> that we could not correct them while they were wearing it because it would
> be too tight on their nose.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
> Of Cindy Ray
> Sent: Saturday, October 17, 2009 3:22 AM
> To: NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users
> Subject: Re: [nagdu] ranting
>
> Laura, I agree with all everyone is saying about your dog. Call the school.
> Why do you believe they aren't listening to you when you call them?
>
> I have had some problems with Fisher. The latest was that he has learned to
> bolt. I was at our convention and he saw another dog and jerked from my
> grasp. I wasn't expecting it; he had been handling the other guides well.
> Someone gave him back to me by the collar. I put on his GL and we spent the
> rest of the evening like that. The next morning I thought he would be good
> with everything because e had worn the GL before and then settled down. I
> was sitting on his leash waiting for our meeting to start. He did the same
> thing as the night before, but when I called him he returned. The next day
> my state president's wife told me that just so I knew, my dog seemed to be
> aggressive towards hers and it would be in the room. To my knowledge, hers
> is not a service animal of any kind. So I was stunned and said, "I didn't
> even know you had a dog." Well, then I remembered this. I never saw the dog
> after that. However, the next day someone from The Seeing Eye called about
> her complaint and said that she thought I seemed to be having trouble with
> Fisher. They would have come out to Iowa if I had said I wanted them to. I
> said if they could offer me something then they could. This hasn't been a
> regular occurrence of Fisher's except that time in Atlanta when a little
> dog
> was in his face and he jerked from my grasp at the park. Never have I
> expeerienced these things with a dog first year or others, but 99% we
> aren't
> having problems. He is terribly distractible, and I would call the school
> in
> a heart beat to come and work with me should I run out of ideas. Mostly I
> am
> very able to control him, and now I know this is a characteristic, I try to
> remember to make it my business to hold him much more tightly.
>
> Cindy
>
>
>
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Lora and Trice