[nagdu] relieving

[Daryl Marie]

Hi, Leye-Shprintse,
It is  very interesting to hear how different schools teach different techniques.  In Canada and the USA it is customary to pick up after your dog out of politeness if nothing else.  Good on you for asking your sister and mum to show you Her'a signals.

Jenny, my almost-2-year-old black lab, is very VERY obvious when she is peeing or pooping... and if she is working and needs to do her business (we call it "getting busy" so that Jenny knows it's OK) she will slow down and turn her head against my leg, almost as a way of getting my attention.  Usually we will be OK to get where we're going before I have to take the harness off and have her "get busy", but there are times when she will just... not... move until she's done herbusiness.

Funny girl!

Daryl
----- Original Message -----
From: leyeshprintse at gmx.fr
To: nagdu at nfbnet.org
Sent: Wed, 19 Feb 2014 08:48:50 -0700 (MST)
Subject: [nagdu]  relieving

BS"D

Rachel,

Welcome to the list! My name is Leye-Shprintse and I am working my first guide dog from SrF:s Ledarhundsverksamhet (Guide Dogs Sweden); we've been a team for over two years now. My dog is named Hera and she is a four-year-old black Labrador Retriever girl; we're located in the capital of Sweden and right now, we're studying French full-time at the University of Stockholm.

Anyhow, to your question. In Sweden, we don't learn how to pick up after our dogs and the reason for it is that we have a lot of nature here. When I returned home with Hera, I asked my mum and Twin sister to teach me Hera's pee and poo signals so that I would be able to pick up after her. Today, it is a normal routine and I guess that many guide dogs' schools in the United States teach their owners the 'picking up techiques'; a GDB owner told me how I could do it when Hera and I were learning it.

Good luck with your decision!

Kind regards,
Leye-Shprintse and Hera <3

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