[nagdu] wagging and harness or not happy about working?

[Larry D. Keeler]

Holly is always happy to work! She is also quite happy to mess with me a 
little! Of course, her personality changes while working and some days she 
works quite hard but usually she works a little and comes home to goof off a 
lot! I was in Indi at the beginning of the month for a bowling tournament. 
Thursday through Sunday Holly worked long hours. She had to ride scrunched 
up in cars, go to bowling alleys, go to many eating locations and tak4e me 
into and out of a few bars! When we got home, she had a day off but would 
have worked but I needed to slow down some.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "melissa R green" <graduate56 at juno.com>
To: "NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users" 
<nagdu at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Friday, June 14, 2013 6:50 PM
Subject: Re: [nagdu] wagging and harness or not happy about working?


> My girl has gotten bettter.
> She is like your dog and once the harness is on she works wonderfully.
> She is a wonderful dog and has gotten better about the harness.
> I never put that pressure on her or myself where I felt like she wasn't
> happy to work or like i did something wrong because she never ran for her
> harness.
> Like some people say their dogs did.
> Every dog is different.
>
> Blessings,
> Melissa and Pj
> "Forever is composed of nows." -Emily Dickinson
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Daniel" <daniel.sweeney1 at comcast.net>
> To: "'NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users'"
> <nagdu at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Friday, June 14, 2013 2:03 PM
> Subject: [nagdu] wagging and harness or not happy about working?
>
>
> Hi,
>
>
>
> I am not sure how long the posts have been going about dogs being happy to
> get into their harness when you get ready to go since my email has been
> messed up but here goes.
>
>
>
> I have always had an issue with Cass, with only a few exceptions where she
> pulls away from me when I put her harness on. After it is on, she works 
> like
> a champ, and seems perfectly content. She is all work, and extremely 
> focused
> on her job. She does not want to get the physical praise as much as just
> verbal praise, and her usual kibble.
>
>
>
> When I brought this up to my field rep, who is no longer with me, she said
> that Cass was head-shy and that it had nothing to do with not wanting to
> work.
>
> I must admit I am always taken a back a bit when she resists the harness
> since I feel like she doesn't want to go, but I go with what my rep said.
>
>
>
> Does anyone else have any similar issue?
>
>
>
> Daniel and Cass
>
> Lakewood, Colorado
>
>
>
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