[nagdu] Working Our Dogs

[Juanita Herrera]

Hello Sarah,
Everyone on the list has given you great suggestions. I think that in
order for your dog not to get bored you need to work him regularly,
and it does sound like Wizard is getting bored. Taking the same route
everyday with no final destination is really not recommended by most
schools. I work my dog almost everyday at my college, at work, taking
public transportation to and from such places, and at stores. I do
most of this alone or usually with people who are also blind like
myself. I don't need anyone sighted to know whether my dog is sniffing
or not. The school teaches techniques to make you aware of such
things. I think that maybe you should contact the school to see what
they say.
Juanita and Anise

On 11/9/12, Sarah <coastergirl92 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> I was wondering how often do you work your dogs? I feel like I
> have to work Wizard every day and I feel guilty if I just let him
> have one day off.  How long is the longest you've allied your
> dogs time off?
>
>
> Sarah and Wizard
>  ----- Original Message -----
> From: Sheila Leigland <sleigland at bresnan.net
> To: "NAGDU Mailing List,	the National Association of Guide Dog
> Users"<nagdu at nfbnet.org
> Date sent: Fri, 9 Nov 2012 04:52:34 -0700
> Subject: Re: [nagdu] Diabetic alert dogs and how alert dogs
> arepreventing	aneed for a guide dog!
>
> Lyn my husband and I were at the convention last weekend.  Our
> dogs misbehaved and growled and were immediately corrected.  I
> would agree with you if we chose not to bring our dogs under
> control but we did and it didn't happen again.  When you know all
> of the facts then please make judgment calls on whether a dog
> should remain in a situation.  I don't know of any dog that
> hasn't made a misstep and the important thing is that the dogs
> were corrected properly and immediately.  In fact they were still
> lying at our feet.  They didn't stand up or approach in any way.
>
> Sheila Leigland
>
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