[nagdu] Ismael not doing things right

[Ramona Davidson]

thank you all, i will certenly be givving them a call this morning.
and to who ever asked, my son will be 4 at the end of this month

On 8/19/12, Terrie Terlau <terrieter at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Ramona,
> I have had five dogs from the Seeing Eye and at times I had to be assertive
> to get someone out when I needed them. Trust yourself in this. If I was
> experiencing what you are, I would insist that I get someone out and insist
> that I was not safe in traffic. I would take it up the line from the person
> on the phone to their supervisor if need be. I would also call back again
> if
> the first person I talked to did not seem to understand. I say this to
> offer
> validation of your right to have help when you need it. It does not matter
> whether you are new or have been out for a lot of years. If this stuff is
> going on, then you need someone from the school to see it and help. You
> might ask your O&M instructor to call Seeing Eye and back you up on your
> need for help, telling them that she thinks the dog's current behavior is
> not safe. Please don't blame yourself. Things happen for the oddest
> reasons;
> you may never know why your dog started doing these things. What matters is
> that you get the help you need. I had to get help twice in my early months
> with my first dog many years ago, and we turned out to be a great team. But
> we would not have if I had not insisted that I needed someone to come out.
> I
> also know that it can be uncomfortable and hard to be assertive. But I
> encourage you and your mobility instructor to talk with Seeing Eye and get
> them to understand what you are going through so that they can help.
> With warm regards,
> Terrie Terlau
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
> Of Ramona Davidson
> Sent: Sunday, August 19, 2012 4:04 PM
> To: NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users
> 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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Mona