[nagdu] GDB time-out

[Tracy Carcione]

Hi Howard.
I thought about that, walking through midtown Manhattan yesterday.  There 
were places we couldn't have stopped, but other places we could, if I'd 
stepped to the side.  I was going to give the timeout a try, but Benny was a 
very good boy.  He must be getting over spring fever, the extreme sniffiness 
that seems to come when it first gets warm.
Tracy

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Howard J. Levine" <WB2HWW at earthlink.net>
To: "'NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users'" 
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Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2014 2:10 PM
Subject: Re: [nagdu] GDB time-out


> How would time out work in busy city like New York on a busy side walk. 
> This
> may work in theory on class but but would not work in rush hour on a busy
> side walk you would be run over. Time out is not going to work in a city
> like New York, guide dog nust be able to handle the real world and you 
> need
> to move on you just can't stop any old place and say I need a time out for
> my guide dog the public is not going to under stand and you night get 
> hurt.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagdu [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Tracy Carcione
> Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2014 12:12 PM
> To: NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users
> Subject: Re: [nagdu] GDB time-out
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> Hi Sherry.
> I think you and I are coming from the same place--longtime dog users, a 
> bit
> skeptical of these newfangled ideas, but willing to give them a try.
> I think I'll try this time-out thing on my way home today.  I may get ten
> people asking me if I'm OK while I stop and become a tree, but I'll be
> interested to see how it goes.
> Thanks for sharing.
> Tracy
>> Hi Tracy,
>>
>> We also use the time out if the dog gets distracted in the field. To
>> my surprise, it really works. I was quite skeptical of the concept
>> till I tried it. All my dogs have been pretty easy to manage, and I've
>> tried the verbal correcting thing with her, just a simple, no hop up.
>> but the time out works better. and pretty much every time, after the
>> ten seconds are done and I pick up the harness and say forward, off we
>> go. Once the dog moves past whatever distracted it, we generally halt
>> and praise and feed, or in the case of my dog, praise and love up.
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: nagdu [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Tracy
>> Carcione
>> Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2014 6:08 AM
>> To: nagdu at nfbnet.org
>> Subject: [nagdu] GDB time-out
>>
>> I've been reading Sherry's GDB training journal with great interest.
>> She mentions something I never heard of before that they call a
>> time-out.  If I understand correctly, when the dog, for instance, is
>> not heeling properly, the person stops, holds the leash near the
>> collar to keep the dog out of mischief, and stonily ignores the dog
>> for 10 seconds.  This bums the dog out, and he resolves to do better.
>> Have I got it right?  Is it used in other places, besides heeling?
>> Have people found that it works?
>> I'm thinking I might give it a try, when Ben is feeling sniffy.  He
>> likes to keep boogying down the road; stopping and doing nothing might
>> be an effective correction. Ben couldn't care less if I ignore him,
>> but I could see how it might affect a softer dog.
>> Tracy
>>
>>
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