[nagdu] owner training

[Julie J.]

Cindy,

I understand what you are saying and no it doesn't trivialize anything.  
actually I think much too often owner training a guide dog is labeled as 
some sort of magical or awe inspiring thing.  I don't think it is.  It 
is a load of work, but it's not magical. *smile*

I think there are five areas of training necessary to make a good guide 
dog.  Three of them overlap with any dog living in peace with humans.  
The five areas are: socialization, house manners, basic obedience, guide 
training and advanced skills.  The vast majority of what it takes to 
make a good guide is in the first three catagories.  Teaching the guide 
skills themselves is one of the easier parts in my opinion.

JMO
Julie

On 12/9/2011 8:22 AM, Cindy Ray wrote:
> 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.
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