[nagdu] I gotta go out - Claire Rose

[Marilyn tucci]

Hi David,
that's a good idea teaching Claire Rose to ring a bell to go out. Anna 
lets me know by putting her head on my lap when she wants to go out. I 
had another guide dog that would stare at the door . Claire Rose sounds 
like a very smart dog and one that loves to work finding you things like 
traffic buttons to press. I do love the find command.
Marilyn and Anna
 
 
 On Fri, Aug 07, 2015 at 03:55 PM, David via nagdu wrote:
 
 > One of the first things I wanted to do after we got home from GDF 
earlier this month was to train my new guide dog to let me know when she 
wanted to go out.  I hung a small cowbell on the door handle, placed my 
fist above the bell and said, "Ring the bell."  I repeated this three 
times, treating each time Clarie Rose rang the bell. Then I said, "Ring 
the bell." without marking the bell with my fist.   It took a couple of 
repeats as she figured out what to do.  When she rang the bell, I 
treated and praised her.  We repeated that about four times.  Each time 
when I  went out to relieve her after that, I said, "Ring the bell." and 
didn't open the door until she rang the bell.  She picked that up pretty 
quickly.  After two days of doing that, I took her to the door and said, 
"Ring the bell for busy-busy."  Now when she starts fidgeting I say, 
"Ring the bell if you need to busy-busy."   That was two days ago. 
We're now working on the next step.  I suspect that she will start 
ringing the bell on her own after a few more days as she closes in on 
the association. I will add treats back in at first when she does this. 
We had done this with another dog that was a pet, but I have to say, it 
took a lot longer to get that pup to ring the bell completely on her 
own.
>
> Claire is one smart cookie, though.  I did the same thing with traffic 
> crossing buttons, but it only took one lesson on one intersection and 
> four tries.  She now drags me to the pole with the buttons at any 
> intersection with the command, "Find the button." ... even when the 
> intersection is configured differently. Fortunately, they put the two 
> intersection buttons on the same pole down here.  We'll deal with left 
> and right buttons when we encounter that, I guess.  We use the same 
> command for elevator buttons and she is a whiz.
>
> I'm pretty proud of her, can't you tell?
>
> David and Claire Rose in Clearwater, FL
>
> On 8/7/2015 1:06 PM, Kaye Kipp via nagdu wrote:
>> I know a puppy raiser who puts the bell on the door and the dog goes 
>> to the
>> door and rings it.  I'm not sure how she trains them to do it though, 
>> but if
>> it's hanging down on the door, it's easily accessible.
>>
>> Kaye
>>
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