[nagdu] Unsettled dog with my friends

[Natalie]

Hi Wayne,
Maybe you need to get her a boyfriend she can snuggle with, hahahahahaha. 
Seriously though, you might be right, that she might be having her own need 
for attention.  Maybe just give her her own special time before girlfriend 
comes over, or afterwards.  Keep us posted, and good luck.
Best,
Nat and Liam Joshua

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Wayne Merritt" <wcmerritt at gmail.com>
To: "NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users" 
<nagdu at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Sunday, December 04, 2011 1:17 PM
Subject: [nagdu] Unsettled dog with my friends


> Greetings all. For those that don't know me and who may be new to the
> list, I am in Austin, Texas, with my second Seeing Eye dog, a German
> Shepherd named Gucci. She is 6 and I've had her for 3 years. Anyway,
> my question is regarding how Gucci behaves when my girlfriend is with
> us. Gucci can't fit into the foot space in the front seat of my
> girlfriend's car, so I put her in the back seat. Whenever we are in
> the car and Gucci is in the back, she really whimpers and whines when
> I am holding hands or snuggling with my girlfriend. She usually
> whimpers quietly wen I am in a car that slows down, but it seems like
> the whimpering and whining picks up a few knotches in my girlfriend's
> car. Gucci also jumps around quite a bit at times in the car. She is
> equally whiny and whimpery when I am sitting with my girlfriend on the
> couch and we are doing more snuggling or holding hands. This has never
> happened before, at least not to this degree, and I am not sure what
> to do about it. I get the feeling that gucci is not used to my
> girlfriend yet and there may be some anxiety on Gucci's part that I'm
> not paying as much attention to her. Has anyone experienced this
> before and if so how did you fix the problem? Now that I am writing
> this, I am wondering if I should call the school and see what they
> recommend. I haven't had to call the school that much in the last 3
> years or so, but this might qualify.
>
> Thanks bunch in advance,
> Wayne Merritt
>
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