[nagdu] relieving

[Nicole Torcolini]

According to one of my friends, South Eastern uses "busy busy", but one of
the people in her class insisted on using "plop, plop, fizz, fizz".
I often don't say "do your business" anymore unless I need to because
someone has forgotten why she is outside and is smelling everything. It's
usually pretty obvious what she is supposed to do. I don't put her harness
on when I take her out at my apartment because it is not that far to where I
take her. At work, there is only one place that she does her business, and
that's all that we ever go there for.

-----Original Message-----
From: nagdu [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Deanna Lewis
Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2014 8:26 AM
To: NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users
Subject: Re: [nagdu] relieving

I think it's funny the different terms that schools use to cue the dog to
use the bathroom.
At GDB we use, "Do your business". Since I've had my dog almost five years,
now I just say "ok", once I put him on a long leash.
Some schools call it relieving, some call it parking, etc.
It's just amusing how many different words can describe it! LOL.
Deanna and Pascal

-----Original Message-----
From: nagdu [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Daryl Marie
Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2014 11:04 AM
To: NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users
Subject: Re: [nagdu] relieving

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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