[nagdu] a new dog

[Tami Jarvis]

Kaye,

That's how I do it. And I train my dog not to follow commands by others 
by praising him and popping treats in his mouth. This turns out to be 
utterly maddening to the types of people who want to take control by 
giving commands to my dog, so it's nice negative reinforcement to them 
and saves much explanation. /lol/ For folks who talk to my dog by name 
or give him directions out of simple absent-mindedness, I figure it's no 
big deal because my dog knows to wait for me to give the command then 
praise for following it. It works to remind the good-willed person to 
tell me and let me tell the dog, so that's a bonus. I get bored hearing 
my own lectures on such subjects by about the 500th time per day, so the 
double-duty operant conditioning method works well enough for me. /lol/

My husband is the worst offender for giving commands to the dog. I think 
someone else mentioned that about their spouse, too. You would think he 
would have gotten used to the idea that Mitzi would ignore him, but no. 
I've spoken to him sternly a few times to prepare him to follow the 
rules more strictly with Loki until Loki gets enough maturity and 
experience to deal with it. I'm not working Loki yet, but we're getting 
close, so I'll see how they both do. It will be interesting to see how 
general public interactions change when he's in his guide harness and 
there's no white cane involved.

Tami

On 08/06/2015 07:46 AM, Kaye Kipp via nagdu wrote:
> I give my dog's name.  I feel like they react to anything and it's up to me to keep control and educate people about not talking to my dog.
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> Kaye
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> I usually  just  give   his name, I’m  bad at  fake names  anyways, and  Franklin always  replyes  to  any  kind  of name.
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