[nagdu] fear and correction

Raven Tolliver ravend729 at gmail.com
Wed Jun 18 04:03:05 UTC 2014


I'm not an advocate of corrections at all. But there should be no
negative feelings when correcting a dog. No fear, anger, or
frustration.

On 6/17/14, Mary Wurtzel via nagdu <nagdu at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> Felix hardly ever barks at all.
> My personal opinion is that fear should not be a part of correcting our
> dogs.
> Mary
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagdu [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Julie J. via
> nagdu
> Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2014 6:58 PM
> To: Daryl Marie; NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog
> Users
> Subject: Re: [nagdu] fear and correction
>
> I don't think I'm probably the best person for advice about unwanted
> barking!  LOL  My dogs bark like insane maniacs in the yard.   My
> philosophy
>
> is that they are dogs and dogs bark and they should embrace their dogness
> and bark...in the yard, in daylight hours and stop before my head starts
> pounding or the neighbors start complaining!
>
> It is interesting that when I have Monty out with me in the unfenced
> portion
> of the yard, he doesn't bark, like ever.  The only two places he has ever
> barked are in the house and in the fenced yard, both places where he's
> contained in some way.   Perhaps it's an issue of frustration that he can't
>
> go check out what he's looking/barking at?   I don't let him go check out
> random things when he's in harness, but maybe he feels like he's freer to
> look at things?  I don't know.  It's interesting to ponder though.
>
> Julie
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daryl Marie via nagdu
> Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2014 1:45 PM
> To: Julie J.
> Cc: NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users
> Subject: Re: [nagdu] fear and correction
>
> Julie,
>
> Your Monty sounds a lot like Jenny in behavior.  She has only ever barked 3
> times  in harness:
> 1) When a really drunk REALLY weird guy approached me at a bus stop (I've
> had weird/drunk people approach me before, but this one set her off)
> 2) When someone was tying their shoe in the middle of a sidewalk. She
> couldn't go around him (busy street to  my left, 3-foot snowbank on my
> right)
> 3) When a bartender made prolonged uninterrupted eye contact with her.
>
> Usually, though, out of harness, I am almost always with her when she
> barks.
>
> At home I would be on the computer and she'll just perk up and bark at
> something.  Perhaps the redirection is a good one.
>
> This begs another question.  Sometimes Jenny will bark at neighbors if she
> sees them when we step outside to relieve.  This only happens at home,
> never
> anywhere else.  Any advice?
>
> Daryl and the vocal Jenny
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Julie J. via nagdu <nagdu at nfbnet.org>
> To: Abigail Bolling <violingirl30794 at gmail.com>, NAGDU Mailing List, the
> National Association of Guide Dog Users <nagdu at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Thu, 12 Jun 2014 12:01:09 -0600 (MDT)
> Subject: Re: [nagdu] fear and correction
>
> At home I call Monty to me and praise him for coming.  If him leaving the
> situation and coming to me doesn't seem to enhance his calm I will use
> calming petting or tell him to down and stay until the UPS delivery guy is
> gone or the neighbors are done with their loud conversation in the street
> or
> whatever.  With Monty, it's an alert behavior.  he wants me to know there's
> something going on.  when I acknowledge that, he usually quits.
>
> Admittedly, he's kind of barky at home.  I've just come to accept that he's
> always going to let me know there's something happening outside.
> Interestingly he does not feel the need to bark when we are out and about.
> I'm okay with this arrangement.
>
> Julie
>
>
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