[nagdu] What's up with all the scavenging anyhow?

[Howard J. Levine]

I agree with 100 percent. The schools are doing this for one reason only thay think it looks nice in public when you see blind person giving dog treat and it makes it easer for school fund raser. It make easer on the trainers.

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From: nagdu [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Vivianna via nagdu
Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2015 1:51 AM
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Cc: Vivianna
Subject: [nagdu] What's up with all the scavenging anyhow?

ok, here goes a contraversial post.
i am reading a load of posts about folks having problems with their dogs grabbing things off the ground.  it seems that, this is the most common problem that folks seem to be having with the second being dog distractions.
do you think that, since many schools are using food to train the dogs that this problem has come up?  i have had several guides and have never had a dog try and carry things around.  i also never use food as a reward for my dog.
i am just so totally against feeding my dog treats in order to get her to guide me properly.  
from what i read, dogs are grabbing things off the ground while actually guiding, while lying on a bus or train, in restaurants, in stores, while relieving, etc.
for me, and, this is just my own preference, i could not work with a dog that did this.  i can put up with some behaviors but, this is definitely not one of them.
folks seem to think that it’s ok to treat the dog for good behavior and then they wonder why he’s so focused on food.  i have even had 3 labs and, they didn’t want to carry things around.
for a pet, yeah, maybe it’s cute to see the dog carrying around toys in public, but, a guide dog?  this should be a professionally trained dog doing a professional job, looking out for the handler.
i think that, if the dogs were trained without the use of treats this would be way less common.
this is all only my opinion and things that i, personally could not handle.
i have probably offended some but, maybe, i may just caused some to think about the food-based training a bit.

Vivianna


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