[nagdu] overhead obstacles

[rhonda cruz]

 i go around it.

 it works for me.
 may is good work when it comes to that. kind of work.


On Jun 16, 2012, at 6:09 AM, Tracy Carcione wrote:

> Ben is pretty bad at overhead obstacles.  I've only had one dog who was
> really good at them.
> My preference is to have the dog go up close to the overhang, then to duck
> under, if possible, or go around if it's too low.  If he stops too far
> away, I hup him up a bit.  But often he bashes me with the branch, and we
> have to re-work it.  Then he gets it.  If it's a route we take regularly,
> he'll probably remember next time, and stop or go around.
> I think my Amba would look at shadows on the ground near where we'd
> encountered overhangs, and go around the shadows, instead of looking up to
> try and judge if it would hit me or not. I think high overhangs are quite
> a challenge for dogs, because they don't usually look up high.  I'm 5.6,
> so I get whacked by branches pretty often in the summer, especially when
> it's rained and they're hanging low.  Yuk!
> Tracy
> 
>> 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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