[nagdu] Guide Dog Obedience

[Michelle]

Hi,

I've got a question. I'm a first-time guide dog user, and have had my current guide dog for just over two years. He's good with his obedience commands most of the time, but when it comes to telling him to sit and stay when I'm checking how much water he has in his container, or if someone else has to go into the laundry for a few minutes for any reason and Troy is thirsty, I, or the other person, will tell him to sit and stay, but then his compulsion to drink right now causes his obedience to go out the window. What do I do about this, so then he won't generalise this breaking of commands to other parts of his working and social life?

Advice much appreciated,

Michelle

P.S. Even though Troy gets enough water to drink each day and has access to it every day, when he wants water, he is so impatient that he can't seem to sit and stay for as lo g as we need him to when it comes to checking his water container or going into the laundry for other reasons before letting him go for a drink. He breaks his stay before I or others leave the laundry.