[nagdu] owner training

[Matt Diemert]

Julie, 
Facinating insight thus far.
I have actually worked three guides, my first for 10 years, my second for 2
months, and my third for three years. 
I think, I was contemplating looking for an adult dog, by that I was
thinking somewhere between 18 and 24 months? Very good point about some sort
of return clause for the first few weeks. 
I'm a very good cain traveler, so I feel comfortable with the idea of
orienting a dog to doing things like stopping at down and up curbs, and
navigating around obsticles.  
I assume that after choosing a dog and becoming familiar with his or her
ways, that obedience sit, stay come, down and up would be a proper starting
point?
Regards:
Matt D. 


-----Original Message-----
From: nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
Of Cindy Ray
Sent: Friday, December 09, 2011 9:23 AM
To: NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users
Subject: Re: [nagdu] owner training

Actually, Julie, I find this interesting and would like to know more about
it myself. I doubt I would ever actually train a dog to guide because I
don't feel motivated to do that, but it would carry over into enhancing the
training a dog already has or, for that matter, training another dog just to
be livable and fun. Hope that doesn't trivialize what you are doing and
saying because I don't mean it to.

Cindy


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