[nagdu] Getting in trucks

[The Pawpower Pack]

Hi Ashley, 
I have just gone through a similar retraining with Soleil after we were in 2 accidents in under 3 weeks time. 
First I started off with the car not running, I opened the door and just started chucking in treats.  My dog is a lab, so thankfully all of this food outweighed any discomfort and fear she may have felt at the time.  She thought about it for literally 2 seconds, and hopped in for the treats.  Eventually, after a week or two, she was classically conditioned that car equals food, so one day I stopped, and waited after opening the door, and she put her front feet in to look for the food and I clicked her for that.  Eventually we worked up to her only getting treats after choosing to enter the car, then to getting treats after she got in the car and I got in the car, and then treats at random.  Now she is riding again without treats. 
Take it slow, and make the treats really good.  
Good luck!  

 Rox and the kitchen Bitches: 
Mill'E, Laveau, Soleil
Pawpower4me at gmail.com
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> On Jun 22, 2015, at 5:08 AM, Sherry Gomes via nagdu <nagdu at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Also, do you have the harness on when you have him get in the truck? A
> couple of my dogs have not liked jumping in the back of an SUV with their
> harnesses on. The GDB harness handle sticks up a bit from the dog's back,
> and they don't seem to like jumping in vehicles with the harness on. Before
> the harness changed, my dogs didn't mind getting in and out in harness,
> well, till they aged and found it too hard to jump in anything high.
> 
> Sherry
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagdu [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Kaye Kipp via
> nagdu
> Sent: Sunday, June 21, 2015 11:00 PM
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> Subject: Re: [nagdu] Getting in trucks
> 
> Can you use treats?  That might work.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagdu [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Ashley Coleman
> via nagdu
> Sent: Sunday, June 21, 2015 6:42 PM
> To: 'NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users'
> Cc: Ashley Coleman
> Subject: [nagdu] Getting in trucks
> 
> Hi all
> Today I had an issue where Landon slid while getting in the back of my mom's
> SUV. He rides in the luggage area so that he can move about comfortably.
> There is a crate back there, and has never had any issue getting in the
> truck before. He had his front paws on the truck getting in, and somehow
> slid. Since then, he refused to get in the truck, he will put his front paws
> up, but I can't seem to encourage him to jump in. He's a 7 year old Golden,
> and doesn't have any problem getting in the pickup, but also does not like
> our other SUV. 
> 
> Has anyone experienced this before, or have any advice. I'd like to work
> with him on getting back in the SUV's, but I'm not sure how to approach
> this. 
> 
> Thank you all for your advice. 
> 
> --
> Thank you
> Ashley Coleman
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