[nagdu] Behaviour question

[Lisa]

Hey Tracy and Danielle,

yes, I'm already asking visitors to ignore him as soon as he starts to get 
too excited. Friends do that and you can see the effect immediately. And 
you're also right, outside I can easily make him sit and wait when I talk to 
people. So I figure the problematic situations are when unfamiliar people 
come over. My boyfriend gives piano lessons at home so we have this 
regularly. But I also started to ask the students to ignore Taylor when he 
behaves like this. And I'm also working on making him go to his place with a 
command. That works pretty good as long as we're alone. But I think that's 
the first step.

Thank you so much for your suggestions. :)

Lisa
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Danielle Sykora via nagdu" <nagdu at nfbnet.org>
To: "NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users" 
<nagdu at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Saturday, March 14, 2015 3:49 PM
Subject: Re: [nagdu] Behaviour question


> These are all good suggestions. A dog will not continue to jump if he
> isn't inadvertently being rewarded for it. If you are talking to
> someone outside while your dog is working, you could have him sit.
> when someone comes to your door have your dog lay down or go to a
> specific place. It might be useful to have a leash on hand that you
> can attach to your dogs collar until he learns to stay for longer
> periods of time. It might also be beneficial to tell anyone entering
> your home to ignore the dog if he jumps on them. That way, he will
> come to realize that it is useless to jump on unfamiliar people
> because they won't pay any attention to him.
>
> Danielle and Thai
>
>
> On 3/14/15, Tracy Carcione via nagdu <nagdu at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>> Hi Lisa.
>> I make the dog sit when I'm talking to someone and the dog is in harness.
>> Krokus gets very excited when people come over.  If it's a friend, I ask
>> them to wait a minute while I put him on leash before they come in.  I'm
>> also working on teaching Krokus "Go to your place".  In time, I hope that
>> he
>> will go to his place and wait there even when I open the front door to 
>> let
>> someone in.  We're a ways from that yet, but he will wait in his place
>> while
>> I take off my coat and hang up his leash and harness, so that's a start.
>> HTH.
>> Tracy
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: nagdu [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Lisa via nagdu
>> Sent: Saturday, March 14, 2015 9:47 AM
>> To: NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users
>> Subject: [nagdu] Behaviour question
>>
>> Hello everyone!
>>
>> I'm coming to you with a question once again. Just to give you the basic
>> info:
>> I have a 3-year-old lab named Taylor. I got him in September 2014. We 
>> work
>> alot on different things and it's amazing to see his or our progress.
>> My question is not about his guidework but about his behaviour when 
>> people
>> come to visit or when we stop and talk to people outside.
>> He wants to jump up on people (is that the right term? Sorry, if not. I
>> think you know what I mean) and just gets too wild and excited when I 
>> start
>> to talk to people, also strangers. When people come into our apartment 
>> and
>> don't ignore him completely, he jumps up on them several times, starts to
>> run in circles around them and gets all excited. Depending on how the
>> person
>> reacts, it stops soon or gets worse and worse. Of course I try to forbid
>> him
>> to jump everytime. I also try to let him sit after a short greeting. But 
>> I
>> just feel I haven't found the best solution to control him in such a
>> situation yet. Especially here in the apartment, I of course don't have 
>> him
>> on a leash and therefore have to think of other things to do to stop him
>> from getting too excited.
>>
>> Do you have any strategies or exercises for me that could help me fix 
>> this
>> issue?
>> It's just very unpleasant, this surprised reaction from people who are
>> often
>> like "He is a trained service dog. Why is he behaving like this?"
>>
>> best wishes from Germany
>> Lisa
>>
>>
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