[nagdu] Wanting to Chase all moving animals, especially small ones...

[Mark J. Cadigan]

Hannah,



Sounds like my dog and pidgins. If there is a pidgin anywhere near my dog, 
he is completely distracted, and won't work. To a lesser extent, other dogs 
will distract him as well. However, for some strange reason, other guide 
dogs don't distract him.



Mark



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Hannah Chadwick" <sparklylicious at gmail.com>
To: "'NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users'" 
<nagdu at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Monday, April 23, 2012 1:42 AM
Subject: [nagdu] Wanting to Chase all moving animals,especially small 
ones...


> Hey all,
> Just wanted to keep you updated, Princess seems to be doing better with 
> the
> new food although she is still having the mixture of both plus water which
> seems to be doing some amazing work!
> Now to the fun part, and please don't think I'm finding every reason to
> complain about my dog because I'm not; it's just that I've never had any
> pets in my life and as much as Princess is a working dog, she is still a 
> dog
> with many pet dog behaviors. I feel like we are bonding very well, and I
> adore her dearly, but there are things I don't think should happen when
> we're out and about.
> My point is that she can get super easily distracted by small animals such
> as a cat or a squarrel. Believe me, I've done a lot of correction work, 
> but
> there have been a few times where she doesn't seem to realize I'm there;
> it's just her and whatever she's staring at. There were times I've 
> literally
> had to drag her away which I don't think is particularly safe to do.
> I've done some work with her where I set things up, but she knows she is
> being set up to do it and she does it well.
> Does anyone else seem to have trouble in this area?
> It seems to me that everyone on the list has amazing dogs, and I feel like
> all I do is complain about mine... hopefully I'm not expecting too much 
> from
> Princess.
> Best, Hannah
>
>
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