[nagdu] Finicky eaters

[Tamara Smith-Kinney]

ROTFLMAO! Literally.  You are too funny!

Maybe we should go underground together with our ravenous, ruined dogs?  We
won't have to worry about dog food, because we just open restaurant doors
and send the dogs in on a raid!

Oh, but I think you forgot to mention that our wannabe guide dogs don't
respect us because we're not the alpha! 

The end of the lecture, though, is what I especially love:  Well! If you
won't do what I tell you to do, and if you're just going to keep chosing to
ruin your dog like that, I'm not going to help you anymore!

Someday I'm going to answer that one with what I *really* think at the time.
I used to hold back because of my ill-trained ravening beasts delicate
sensibilities.  /lol/  B;ut she's old enough now that she's not keyed
tightly to my emotions and how I display them.  There is a snarling,
ravening, ill-mannered and possibly vicious beast in this team,l and it
ain't the poodle! /evil grin/

Then again, it's more fun to just smile, "Well, okay, if that's how you
feel, then."  Then shrug and stand staring blankly until they go away
because you just short-circuited what passes for their brain.  Still, every
now and then I think it might be fun to take a more overtly aggressive
approach just for something different...  Except that would give them
validation for their bad behavior, and I certainly wouldn't want to reward
them!  You know where *that* leads.  /evil grin/

Tami Smith-Kinney

-----Original Message-----
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Of The Pawpower Pack
Sent: Saturday, July 03, 2010 11:19 AM
To: NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users
Subject: Re: [nagdu] Finicky eaters

Tami,
psst, the guide dog police are also out looking for me.  Glad to know  
there's someone else out there who is as improper as I am! ha ha
My dogs eat a raw diet and it's amazing the reactions I get from  
people once they find out that my dogs eat "human food."  Rather than  
feeding them food which is not fit for humans to eat, I guess.  People  
seem to think that a dog who eats "human food" will be unable to enter  
a restaurant or other place where food is being served because they  
will suddenly lose all of their training, and turn into a food  
obsessed maniac who will hop from table to table, snarfing everyone's  
food before you can say boo.  Add to that the fact that I am a clicker  
trainer and use food-- yes-- human food, in my training and some  
people are just sure that my dog will never learn to behave  
appropriately, will become an out of control monster, or die because I  
am "breaking all of the rules."  Even though the only "rules" my dogs  
have are mine since I'm the head trainer/CEO/nutrition expert at my  
guide dog school.
I get told all of the time what damage I'm doing and how my dogs will  
suddenly become ravenously insane food vacuums once I enter a  
restaurant.  Forget that I've been feeding this way for ten years and  
training this way for six years.  According to "the experts" I've just  
gotten lucky thus far, and any day now, my dog will explode, or  
something.
*sigh*

Every dog is different and what works for most doesn't work for all.  
meh!

Rox and the Herbal HenchHounds
Bristol (retired), Mill'E SD. and Laveau Guide Dog, CGC.
"It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point  
out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half- 
wit, and the emperor remains an emperor."-- Neil Gaiman
http://www.pawpowercreations.com/retreat.html
pawpower4me at gmail.com
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