[nagdu] Juno walks

[Angie Matney]

That's funny. And I'm also glad I don't have to yank my dog around.

Angie


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "AnnaLisa Anderson" <annalisa at sector14.net>
To: "NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users" 
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Sent: Saturday, October 31, 2009 4:04 PM
Subject: [nagdu] Juno walks


> Hi Angie and all,
>
> This reminded me of something funny that happened during my last training
> class, when I got Sunny.  I was doing a juno walk with my trainer, and at
> one point Juno stopped to sniff something I think, and I gave a correction
> and pulled the harness right out of the trainer's hand.  Actually it
> happened more than once. <smile>  I didn't even think it was that hard of 
> a
> correction, but I caught the trainer off guard I guess because I was so
> quick about it.  He teasingly accused me later of taking Juno's head off.
> No, I don't make it a routine to give hard corrections, and no one I ever
> did a juno walk with ever asked me to give the hardest correction I could.
> I do remember my first trainer though, tying a harness and leash to a 
> fence
> post and telling me to give a two-handed leash correction with everything 
> I
> had.  I respected him so I did as he asked, but I remember it broke my 
> heart
> because I was thinking, I hope I never have to do that with a real dog.
> Fortunately I've never had to correct a real dog that hard, and since 
> those
> days I have learned a whole lot, and I think the schools have too, that
> positive methods work much better.
>
> AnnaLisa and Sundance
>
>
>
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