[nagdu] Scavenging While Relieving

[Alysha]

Thanks for all the suggestions! I'll try the gentle leader and see where
that gets us. Xylon is remarkably tolerant of the GL, so hopefully it'll
work.

Alysha

-----Original Message-----
From: Aleeha Dudley [mailto:blindcowgirl1993 at gmail.com] 
Sent: Friday, April 03, 2015 9:52 AM
To: Tracy Carcione; NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide
Dog Users
Cc: Alysha
Subject: Re: [nagdu] Scavenging While Relieving

Dallas did this too. Tse recommended that I park him in his gentle leader.
They said to use it on him whenever I was outside or working him for two
weeks, then slowly wean him off of it. 
Hth,
Aleeha 

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> On Apr 3, 2015, at 9:31 AM, Tracy Carcione via nagdu <nagdu at nfbnet.org>
wrote:
> 
> I feel your pain.  My old dog Ben did that for a while.  He eventually 
> grew out of it, though he still has a thing for mulch.  Krokus does it 
> too, but I've been relieving him in the street, which is a little less
full of stuff.
> If you have control over the mulch, Ben was less likely to eat the big 
> pieces of bark.  Or maybe they were just easier to take away from him.
> I think what I did was take stuff away from him when I heard/felt him 
> grab something, and try to keep him away from stuff when I could.
> You might try calling TSE and see if they have any better ideas.
> Good luck.
> Tracy
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagdu [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Alysha via 
> nagdu
> Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2015 7:47 PM
> To: NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users
> Subject: [nagdu] Scavenging While Relieving
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I've been home with Xylon, my second Seeing Eye dog, for a little over 
> two months now. He's absolutely wonderful, but he wants to try and eat 
> everything whenever I let him sniff around outside when relieving! 
> He'll try to eat rocks, grass, mulch, dirt, or whatever he can get into
his mouth.
> He's actually not too bad about scavenging while he's working or in 
> the house, but when we stop, and especially when it's time to relieve, 
> he turns into a doggy vacuum. I try and take him to areas where random 
> debris is limited, but I think Xylon could find something to eat 
> anywhere! Any ideas on how to keep him from eating stuff while still 
> letting him sniff around to find a good spot to do his business? Is 
> this just a puppy thing that I can expect him to grow out of?
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Alysha and Xylon
> 
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