[nagdu] A thing I teach my dogs

[Cheryl Osborn]

I wish my dog would bark for everytime someone cuts in fron of me   It
really irritates me when people think that it's ok to me off.  Guess
they figure I won't notice.

On 5/12/10, AnnaLisa Anderson <annalisa at sector14.net> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Well, I haven't specifically "taught" Sunny how to stand in lines, but she
> can do it pretty well.  She is very good at follow, so when we are in a
> line, I keep a hold of her harness and she usually will slowly walk forward
> when the person ahead of her moves. If she tries to move too far ahead, I
> will pull back on the harness a bit and tell her to wait.  Just today we
> were standing in line for breakfast, and she was in the right place, except
> that I noticed she was very gently nosing the guy ahead of us.  I followed
> her nose, and the guy turned around and smiled and said she was smelling his
> dogs on him.  She always knows how to sniff out the dog people. <smile>  She
> does try to budge in line sometimes, especially when getting on the bus.
> <smile>  She's not always good at finding the end of the line though.
> Tracy's idea for that is great, will have to try that.  I should make it a
> more conscious thing for both of us.
>
> I'd like to teach Sunny how to find empty bathroom stalls but just have to
> make the time to do it...  I know it's easily doable, especially with the
> clicker.  The bathroom at work would be a good place to practice before or
> after work, as it's pretty quiet then.  She does know how to find a chair,
> but I'm afraid I'm not very consistent about it, and she doesn't always
> target empty ones. <smile>  I'm sure though that if I only rewarded her for
> finding the empty ones, she'd get it pretty quick.  Gotta work with her more
> on that too.
>
> AnnaLisa and Sundance
>
>
>
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