[nagdu] issue with dog going to greet people

[Tami Kinney]

Nemanja,

Cool. I am glad you got a great dog.

I love your name, too, and am pleased to learn that my screen reader
pronounces it right. /smile/ 

Having your dog show you things in the environment can be handy, but
mine has been known to lie through her pointy p;poodle teeth to make new
friends or just have a good sniff. /lol/ Well, she's just a little over
5 and has been working for 3 years now, so she saves stuff like that up
for special occasions, just to see if I'm on my toes, I guess.

Tami

On Tue, 2011-09-06 at 13:18 -0400, Nemanja Djurdjevic wrote: 
> Both of the A's make the ah sound, and the J, well, sounds like a J. Thanks
> for the tips, I tried having people walk from different directions to greet
> me or the dog, and she's getting better at it. One of the issues I am
> working on is correcting her when she starts to do something undesirable. I
> need to work on correcting the moment it happens, not a second after. We'll
> get better at it as time goes on. I've only had her for a few weeks, and
> she's already proving to be one of the best decisions I ever made.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
> Of Julie J.
> Sent: Tuesday, September 06, 2011 12:18 PM
> To: NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users
> Subject: Re: [nagdu] issue with dog going to greet people
> 
> Welcome Nemanja!
> 
> I'm Julie, one of the moderators.  I love your name!  How do you pronounce
> it?
> 
> I think you are on the right track with the unwanted greeting behavior.  
> If you are noticing improvement I'd stick with it.  Consistency is the key.
> Also the earlier you can catch her the better.  So if you notice her turning
> off someplace you don't think you should be turning, I'd stop and do some
> obedience exercises or somehow get her attention back on you.  Then proceed
> on your way.
> 
> If the problem is more than a nuisance and you want to take a more serious
> action to extinguish it, you could enlist the help of some friends.  First
> get them to wear clothing that makes noise, carry a crinkly shopping bag,
> jingle the change in their pocket or something so you can hear where they
> are.  Then set up lots of training opportunities 
> by having the friends approach you from various directions.   Since you 
> will know what is coming up you can intercede with Mary early.  You can use
> whatever works, the gentle leader, a correction, a treat for focus on you,
> obedience exercises-whatever you have been taught or what you feel
> comfortable doing.
> 
> As she gets better you can increase the difficulty by asking people to
> approach her directly, by reaching to pet, by offering food, by making eye
> contact etc.  Start easy and build up her self control gradually.
> 
> HTH and welcome!
> Julie
> 
> 
> On 9/5/2011 1:38 PM, Nemanja Djurdjevic wrote:
> > Hello List,
> >
> > My name is Nemanja Djurdjevic, and I am a recent graduate of the 
> > seeing eye with a yello lab named Mary. She is my first guide of any 
> > kind from any school. While I am doing routes on campus, Mary likes to 
> > turn off routes and greet other people and investigate other things. I 
> > tried using the gentle leader and it seems to have curbed the behavior 
> > slightly. I correct her when she does this, with and without the 
> > gentle leader, but again, it only helps slightly. I discourage people 
> > from petting her while she is in harness, so it's not like they're
> greeting her. Are there any other steps I can take?
> > Thank you very much for your help,
> >
> > Nemanja
> >
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