[nagdu] relieving

Marsha Drenth marsha.drenth at gmail.com
Fri Feb 21 13:46:32 UTC 2014


Please stay on topic. 
Thank you, 

Marsha drenth  
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> On Feb 19, 2014, at 3:17 PM, craig.heaps at comcast.net wrote:
> 
> From the album "Meet the Piddles"?  
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> 
> From: "Tracy Carcione" <carcione at access.net> 
> To: "NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users" <nagdu at nfbnet.org> 
> Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2014 10:12:09 AM 
> Subject: Re: [nagdu] relieving 
> 
> When I was a newby at GDB, we sang it as: 
> Leash relieve me, let me go, 
> For I can't hold it anymore. 
> To pee inside would be a sin; 
> Relieve me, then we can both go in. 
> 
> A classic. 
> Tracy 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Doug Parisian" <eggmann at mymts.net> 
> To: "NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users" 
> <nagdu at nfbnet.org> 
> Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2014 11:32 AM 
> Subject: Re: [nagdu] relieving 
> 
> 
>> Indeed, the numbers one and two no doubt have serious personality issues. 
>> Makes me think of the Bill Cosby routine or that song by Mr. Humperdink 
>> (the name itself speaks volumes.) 
>> Please relieve me, let me go; cause I can't hold it any more. 
>> 
>> Sometimes I just can't help myself. 
>> 
>>> On 19/02/2014 10:25 AM, Deanna Lewis wrote: 
>>> 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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>> Doug Parisian 
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>> eggmann at mymts.net 
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