[nagdu] overhead obstacles

[Debbie Cole]

Julie

that Monty sounds pretty clever.

I've only had one incident where leone walked me into a hanging tree
branch. I said "Ouch"  she knows what "Ouch" means.  i shook my finger
at her.  she understands a lot of my body language and i told her
we're reworking this.  I backed up about 10 feet and said "forward"
And she went forward and stopped and turned  and we went around the
branches.  Not all the way in the street though and then I praised hr.

I'm only 4'11" so it's not likly this ahppens often to me.

Debbie cole

On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 7:14 PM, Julie J. <julielj at neb.rr.com> wrote:
> Monty and I have been struggling for a while now with overhead obstacles.
> I need to figure out a game plan and get on it.  He's stopping too far out
> so I don't always understand that he's stopping for a tree branch or
> whatever.  I'll tell him to go forward or around or whatever and his
> responses vary.  Sometimes he'll refuse, sometimes he'll go and I run into
> the branch and sometimes he'll do some really amazing intricate guide work
> to weave me through the mess.
>
> I've been trying to get him to work up closer to the obstacle so I can reach
> it and know what's going on, but it's not been exceptionally successful.  So
> I'm open to ideas, suggestions or anything anyone has to offer.
> How exactly do you guys work overhead obstacles?  Do you go off the sidewalk
> and around? Or duck down and go under? Or backtrack and go a different way?
> Does your guide stop for an overhead or does the dog automatically lead you
> around it?
>
> He's not ignoring the overheads.  We are just having difficulty in
> understanding each other, which leads to me giving confusing directions.  I
> want to get this worked out before I really mess up his previous training
> and he stops indicating them all together.
>
> For the new folks, I have owner trained Monty so I have no trainer or school
> to call.  Monty is exceptionally safety conscious and works most obstacles
> from a distance, which is fine when he takes me around without my additional
> direction.  I also will be using clicker training to fix this snag since I
> feel it is probably my issue and a miscommunication rather than blatant
> goofing off on his part.
>
> Thoughts?
> Julie
>
>
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