[nagdu] Fake Service Dogs

Criminal Justice Major Extraordinaire orleans24 at comcast.net
Fri Nov 4 04:45:51 UTC 2011


Wow, can't blame you one bit for that happening.
If it was me in that situation, it would have thrown me off guard quickly.
I'm thankful for reinforcing the training of food refusal with Odie.
If he tried to gravitate toward it, he'd get corrected on the spot.
I started off with using his own food and snacks for refusal and then 
advanced further up with other things and saying leave it.
I'd also incorporate a new command with him which was "take it" and that 
meant it was all right for him to have his food or treats.
I figure no matter how well prepared you are, anything odd can still happen 
and it gets rougher, especially if kids are around and at the dog's level.
I will share another similar story of what I dealt with when it came to Odie 
the day my husband was released from Denver Health Medical june 24, 2006.
His four-year-old step sister Aaliyaah started teasing and taunting Odie 
with a bag of cheetos: the hard crunchy kind.
She purposely kept putting them up in Odie's face and it got to the point of 
where he had enough and was about to let her have it.
Dale had to tell her to knock it off immediately before the cheetos would be 
gon in an instant second.
Yes, Odie makes mistakes and he's not perfect.
Sometimes, I wonder where people get the notion that service dogs are 
supposed to be "perfect" and not do anything wrong.
If that was true, how would our furry partners learn from a mistake if they 
were to make them?
Bibi and Odie
the happy spirited bounty labra wolf 





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