[nagdu] Obedience

[Cindy Ray]

That bag thing is a really good idea. Never thought of doing that before.

Cindy


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From: nagdu [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of The Pawpower Pack
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Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2014 8:53 AM
To: Tracy Carcione; NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide
Dog Users
Subject: Re: [nagdu] Obedience

Hi Tracy, 
This thing with the obedience sounds strange to me too.  I would start
slowing it down and force him to listen to you, not to anticipate what he
thinks is coming.  
You might try putting something really stinky like tuna in a ziploc bag so
it smells good but he can't get to it.  Or you can hear him get the bag.  I
like to start with my foot on the bag and kind of move the bag with me under
my shoe.  I still have the dog on a leash when I start that so I can feel
her head go down.  
Good luck! 

 Rox and the kitchen Bitches: 
Mill'E, Laveau, Soleil
Pawpower4me at gmail.com
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> On Nov 20, 2014, at 7:41 AM, Tracy Carcione via nagdu <nagdu at nfbnet.org>
wrote:
> 
> I am trying to be good and do my daily obedience exercises.  I try to do
them in various places.  What else have people done to jazz them up and keep
them interesting and useful?
> I would like to try them with food around, but I'm not sure I can be quick
enough to keep Krokus from snatching the food without some help from
someone.  He's really fast, and getting the food would defeat the whole
purpose.  But I know it can be done, and would like to know the trick.
> 
> Tangentially, when I learned OB at GDB many moons ago, I learned to wait a
beat or two after the down before giving the sit, so the dog was responding
to the command and not anticipating.  But it seems different at TSE.  It was
down sit down sit down sit, with no real time between.  Krokus expects that,
and my classmates did it that way, so I was on my first or 2nd down/sit and
they had done 3.  Seems odd to me, because Krokus pops up a second after I
say down, thinking that's how it's done. Seems to me he should be waiting
for my command.
> Tracy
> 
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