[nagdu] Ismael not doing things right

[Lyn Gwizdak]

I'd have the school send someone to have a look.  Sometimes veering can be 
caused by incorrect lineup at the curb.  But, definetly, have an instructor 
have a look.  You don't want to become fearful and lose confidence - that 
will travel down to the dog in a big hurry.  How old is the son you walk 
with?

Lyn and Landon
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From: "Ramona Davidson" <ramonadavidson88 at gmail.com>
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Subject: [nagdu] Ismael not doing things right


>I am so stressed at this point i'm really not sure what to do.
> ismaels guide work has been less than desirable as of late. last
> saturday i took him to the vet for an ear infection which is all
> cleared up now. we started having serious issues around that time, not
> going all the way to kurbs, extreme vearing when crossing streets, and
> just not listening to me. i chocked it up to the ear infection but
> gave tse a call anyway, they told me that i should probably not walk
> with my son for a wile to see if ismaels attention issue would clear
> up, so i was pritty sure my son was the distraction. a few days ago
> ismael started vearing extremely off course  i thought he was just
> asuming I was wanting to go to places we had been before so i worried
> about it but once again chocked it up to my son being with us.
>
> today, I did some ONM on the college campus and my son stayed at home
> with his daddy. I would have to say this has been the worss day yet.
> wile crossing streets: I would feel him vearing and try to correct him
> but he wouldn't listen. then we decided to do the street crossing
> sighted guide and i did the sit, praze, good boy, tap my foot thing at
> the kurbs  and it didn't work. we showed him exactly where we wanted
> him to go and he still did not cross strate.
> another issue, every time we would walk down the sidewalk and get up
> to the intersection instead of taking me to the kurb he'd cut the
> corner turn right and keep going down the street. i corrected him time
> and time again, took him to the kurb, made him sit, tapped it with my
> foot told him good boy, I must have done this about a million times,
> he still would not go to the kurb.
> we then did some clicker training to the pole thinking that if i could
> at least get him to go to the pole  instead of going to the right than
> i could at least get my self the rest of the way to the kurb, as long
> as the treats were flowing and the clicker was out he went directly to
> that pole every single time, as soon as the training was finished he
> started zooming right past the pole again. i'm so frustrated.
>
> I seriously want to bang my head against the wall right now. the onm
> instructor says I seem to be doing everything right and she says i
> need to get the seeing eye to come out but they keep  blowing it off
> saying it's because we are still new, well i have tryed everything
> they suggested and still no change.
>
> is there anything i could be doing wrong??
>
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