[nagdu] Class Wednesday

[Tami Jarvis]

Tracy,

Love hearing the progress and the ups and downs of getting to know your 
flower child and how you are working with him as you learn each other's 
ways.

Daryl, I'm like you. I just talk and talk to my dogs. Mitzi seems to 
like the cheerleading and to do better with a good supply of praise. She 
also likes to know where we are going in advance, so when I confer with 
her on our itinerary, she seems to work happier and snappier. I no 
longer really need to talk a route through out loud, but I will still 
tell her in general where we're going when we set out. Or she will hear 
me tell the spouse as I'm getting ready to go.

I'm trying to keep my mouth shut more with Loki, with limited success. 
He still needs a fair amount of coaching and of course praise for his 
remembering what to do, but I try to remember not to discuss the weather 
with him just for something to say as we go along. /lol/

Tami



On 11/05/2014 07:38 AM, Daryl Marie via nagdu wrote:
> 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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