[nagdu] Class Wednesday

[Daryl Marie]

hey, Tracy!

I love reading this... all the ways you are bonding with your dog - the good and the not-so-good!

It's so funny that you say you can't talk to Krokus too much.  Jenny tends to focus better when I *am* talking to her.  We get past a tricky block that often has overflowing/picked-over garbage cans by my talking to her... it helps her keep her head.  Our trainer often told me to talk to her more because she gets motivated by praise.

I love hearing how all dogs are just so different from each other!

Daryl and Jenny
----- Original Message -----
From: Tracy Carcione via nagdu <nagdu at nfbnet.org>
To: nagdu at nfbnet.org
Sent: Wed, 05 Nov 2014 08:13:23 -0700 (MST)
Subject: [nagdu] Class Wednesday

Gosh, it's a week since I met Krokus!
Yesterday afternoon, we did a lot of work on getting him over the slows. 
I have to pull back and shut up.  I have the bad retrain habit of pushing
a bit with the harness, and, if I do, he just stops.  So I have to pull
back and walk real slow until he throws himself into it.  Hard work.  Then
I can't talk to him too much while we're walking, because he gets
distracted by it.
We walked real slow up a quiet streey, and Ben would have started sniffing
everything, but Krokus just walked along.  He got distracted a bit by some
little kids playing across the street.  That's the kind of guy he is.  But
it was easy to get him past it.  I think I've given 2 leash corrections in
the last 2 days.
Today, I did the Elm Street solo, still working on Pocus Krokus, but he
did start stepping it up after a couple blocks.  This afternoon we start
freelance, by which TSE means working on things we want to work on instead
of planned routes.  We'll do targetting a crosswalk button, revolving
doors, and escalators.

Tracy



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