[nagdu] how dogs learn

[Tami Jarvis]

Wow! A dog that doesn't want a sniff fest in the grocery store? What 
kind of magic do you have? /lol/

Mitzi was busy, busy in stores at first, so she made me nervous when I 
first started shopping with her. She wanted to investigate everything, 
so my motto was Constant Vigilance. She never did create a disaster and 
finally settled down, although she will look at things and point at them 
with her nose without touching them. Whew! Funny what she points out to 
me, too.

Still, when I think about all the trials and tribulations of training, 
the part that scares the pants off me is the meat counter at the grocery 
store. Traffic? Pshaw! That ain't scary. It's the meat counter that's 
dangerous. /lol/

While I was working with her around the high stimulation of the meat 
counter at the corner grocery store while actually trying to buy some 
meat, what I did not know was that the other butcher was slipping out to 
hand my pup scraps from the cutting room. Help! I guess it didn't ruin 
everything, since I can go shopping with my dog. But I see meat counters 
as hazardous environments. /lol/

Tami

On 08/30/2013 11:05 PM, Mardi Hadfield wrote:
> Hi Julie, I have noticed that Neechee sniffs the floor of a store or the
> side walk. She seldom sniffs objects of products in a store,even a grocery
> store.I would think she would try to sniff the meat when we are at the meat
> counter but she doesn't. She never sniffs at the food in a grocery store or
> a restaurant.She never begs for food even at home.Shaman does sniff things
> that he should not but he does not do it all that often.He doesn't sniff or
> beg in restaurants,but some times he will beg at home if some one else
> besides me is eating.He doesn't do it with me though. He has been known to
> steal food off a plate at home if it is left unattended long enough.He has
> never done it in a restaurant. All my dogs get a lot of sniffing time in as
> I have a very large front and back yard.I also think my dogs are mostly
> sight learners but they do use sniffing and doing also.It is a curious
> subject.........Mardi and Shaman and Neechee,GDIT.
>