[nagdu] Finding Certain Things

[Lisa belville]

Yep, we do this at GDF and we're encouraged to teach the dog to find other 
things, too.It starts by going to the object and giving it a name and really 
praising the dog while saying that object name.  It does sound a bit weird 
to people on the outside, I mean, when you hear "Good girl, good Bench" it 
does sound weird.  It does work, though.

Jenine Stanly or some of the other GDF grads on here can give a more 
detailed summary, but that's basically it.  it depends on you and your dog 
if you want to use treats, clicker, or both.  I don't think GDF stresses the 
treats and clicker approach as much as they used to.  I've never had formal 
instruction with the clicker and frankly I don't think I could manage the 
praise, the clicking, and the treating at the same time, but then again I 
can barely walk and chew gum, so YMMV.  <grin>

Lisa

Hey, guess what! guess what! guess what! Aww crap, I forgot!
Lisa Belville
missktlab1217 at frontier.com

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "William Vandervest" <timelord09 at att.net>
To: "NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users" 
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Sent: Saturday, January 28, 2012 8:09 PM
Subject: Re: [nagdu] Finding Certain Things


> at Leader, they teach the dogs to "find the" elevater, chair, door etc and 
> i think they do this at most (if not all) the other guide dog schools too
> William And LD Lynard
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