[nagdu] Amazing dogs?

[Steven Johnson]

I would agree with Tracy's recommendations, but only after you contact the
training program first to see what they recommend.  You are such a new team,
and although I respect the advice of everyone on this list, the default is
generally to contact your training program to help resolve the issue/s at
hand.

Steve


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From: nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
Of GARY STEEVES
Sent: Monday, April 23, 2012 2:00 PM
To: NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users
Subject: Re: [nagdu] Amazing dogs?

Hello Everyone:

Tracy makes some good points. Bogart is quite far from perfect. Does he
guide well. Yes, he guides quite well with a couple of little  faults. I can
say this since he ran me into the back of my girlfriend last night while
going down stairs. No one fell but we'll be re-working that scenario a lot.
No more escullators for awhile Bogart, you're taking the staris slowly and
cautiously.  Bogart gets distracted by pigeons and by dogs, depending on the
dog. But he guides well. He hasn't ran me into anything in a long time
(besides people). He learns so well and can think through a situation  if I
give him the time. He is a poodle so he is easily distracted so needs to be
verbally, and some times physically corrected. Maybe more than other breeds
I don't know.

Bogart does howl but only in the dog park when things aren't going as he
wishes with regards to getting said dog to play with him. it will be bark
bark bark hoooowl. embarrassing. :)

Personlly I think poodles are more of a handful than other more common
breeds. I like it. His personality, like Tracy was saying, makes him great
in cities, on subways in crowds. He can be a bit jumpy but then he
immediately recovers and gets back to it, a bit like me. :)

You have a lot going on but I agree with the one who says do more obiedience
work. I've noticed of late I have been letting little things slide with
bogart so last week I started reworking anything that went wrong and this
has brought him into focus a bit better. I must remember that whenever I
have time I need to rework any issue to help us both out.

Good luck
Gary

----- Original Message -----
From: Tracy Carcione <carcione at access.net>
Date: Monday, April 23, 2012 8:50 am
Subject: [nagdu] Amazing dogs?
To: nagdu at nfbnet.org

> So Hannah, you think the rest of us all have amazing dogs?  
> That's nice! 
> It seems to me I'm always poor-mouthing my Benny boy.  He has some 
> amazing qualities, but he has his faults, too.  And some of them are 2 
> sides of the same coin.  For example, I love his cocky self- 
> confidence.  I'm sure it helps him cope with the big bad city.  But it 
> also makes him hard to correct, since he's so sure he's right in 
> whatever he wants to do.
> 
> Every dog has faults, to some degree or other.  And every person has 
> to decide, with every dog, these things:
> Is this fault so serious that I'm unsafe?  Can this fault be fixed, 
> and, if so, how?  If it can't be fixed, can I live with it?
> And the ones I can live with, if I must, may not be the same ones you 
> can live with, and vice versa.
> Tracy
> 
> 
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