[nagdu] Downtime in class

Sarah coastergirl92 at gmail.com
Mon Sep 17 23:17:00 UTC 2012


that's awesome! I am so excited to have a dog.  Can dogs sense 
how you are feel, can they sense your moods? What kind of dog do 
you have?

 ----- Original Message -----
From: Cindy Ray <cindyray at gmail.com
To: "NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog 
Users" <nagdu at nfbnet.org
Date sent: Mon, 17 Sep 2012 18:12:22 -0500
Subject: Re: [nagdu] Downtime in class

\Hi, Sarah, I am Cindy.  You know, it depends on the dog.  I am a 
firm believer in spending a lot of time in the process of bonding 
with my dog, especially the first few days.  If the person who 
trained you is your trainer, they will look to that person for a 
while, but you will start to see a switch over in a few days.  
When you take that dog home, I think the bonding increases 
because now it has left all it knows behind except you, so it 
trusts you.  You will have work to do to become a solid team, but 
your dog and you will have already begun a strong bonding that 
will only get stronger.  I think the key is a lot of attention, 
especially at first and mostly from you, corrections when you 
have to, and lots of praise when the dog does something right and 
well.

CL


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