[nagdu] Agility

[Bryan Gearry]

Good Morning Tracy, I just read your post and the first thing that came 
to mind was sensory or work overload. I am a first time Guide dog 
handler and I find it takes all my concentration to make sure my Guide 
is working for the safety issues. I would think that agility training 
might be counter productive for the Guide training. I have my Guide for 
5 years and I learn every day, but I have to pay attention all the time. 
I'm no authority, it just seems that our Guides have one job and that is 
for our safety and navigation. It seems like agility training which 
would probably be a lot of fun for the dog is also like 
multi-tasking....possibly. Hopefully some of the experienced and long 
time handlers will chime in on this and give you a better answer to your 
question. I think it might be like using a retriever as a Guide and then 
go out bird hunting with them. They might not understand the 
difference....I'm just saying. I will be watching for the responses as 
it is a very good question.


On 7/17/2015 4:32 AM, Tracy Carcione via nagdu wrote:
> My brother wants to know if anyone has done agility training with their dog,
> and how a blind person does it?  He has a puppy he wants to do it with, and
> he's also thinking of doing it with his young guide.
>
> If you want to reply offlist, my email is carcione at access.net.
>
> Tracy
>
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