[nagdu] Play time

[Tamara Smith-Kinney]

Yeah, I live with a pair of comediennes.  /grin/  The funny part is that I
keep falling for it.  I'll take a break to play with the dogs while I'm
thinking of something else and ask them where whichever toy is, and they
will decided to just mess with me.  They have an awful lot of fun, and it
does keep me entertained...  Operant conditioning definitely works both
ways.  /lol/

Tami Smith-Kinney

-----Original Message-----
From: nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
Of Cheryl Osborn
Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2010 1:46 PM
To: NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users
Subject: Re: [nagdu] Play time

Tami,

That must be frustrating, but it's so funny!


On 4/22/10, Tamara Smith-Kinney <tamara.8024 at comcast.net> wrote:
> Rox,
>
> They're no fun if they're not weird!  /grin/
>
> The dogs like to hide things from me sometimes then get me to look for
them
> using positive reinforcement to keep me hunting.  I always fall for it,
too.
> /grin/  Probably because it's something I can do with them that doesn't
> involve Daisy's barking!  That there is good positive reinforcement for
me.
> /lol/
>
> Tami Smith-Kinney
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
> Of The Pawpower Pack
> Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2010 6:13 PM
> To: NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users
> Subject: Re: [nagdu] Play time
>
> Laveau, my Doberman loves tennis balls.  She will chase them all day
> long.
> Bristol, my twelve-year-old retired queen is a tug of war champion.
> She can still out tug all the dogs in the house and the people.
> Mill'E-Max is a bit of an odd duck because she doesn't understand the
> point of fetching a ball. I think she associates retrieving so
> strongly with her "job" that she doesn't see it as a game.  She'll
> play tug with Brissy but losing every time isn't fun so she quits
> after a while.
> Mill'E's favorite is clicker games-- free shaping, hiding and finding
> objects, and complex retrieve problems. For example she loves it when
> I throw dimes and pennies and old credit cards on my tile floor and
> she has to run around picking them all up and putting them back in the
> box or spitting them into my hand.  She reminds me of a Niffler from
> Harry Potter.   She thinks that is the best thing ever.
> She loves unpacking boxes and opening and closing doors.  If I let
> her, she will stand by the door and just slam it and open it over and
> over again.  I said she was weird.
>
>
> Rox and the Kitchen Bitches
> Bristol (retired), Mill'E SD. and Laveau Guide Dog, CGC.
> "It's wildly irritating to have invented something as revolutionary as
> sarcasm, only to have it abused by amateurs." -- Christopher Moore
> pawpower4me at gmail.com
>
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> AIM: Brissysgirl Yahoo: lillebriss
>
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