[nagdu] GL and TSE leash

[Debra Baker]

Tracy,

This is Debbie Baker, also a TSE graduate; I agree with Aleeha Dudley about
the amount of tension on the leash when Krokus is wearing the gl.  As you
are doing, attaching the leash to his collar, and the small snap to the gl,
you are creating what my most recent trainer called a three-quarter leash.
He told me to put no more than two or three fingers to hold the leash loop
because, as Aleeha stated, putting it on your wrist as usual would use too
much tension.  

Debbie Baker with Bella, bakerdebra53 at gmail.com


-----Original Message-----
From: nagdu [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Aleeha Dudley via
nagdu
Sent: Sunday, March 15, 2015 4:47 PM
To: Tracy Carcione; NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide
Dog Users
Subject: Re: [nagdu] GL and TSE leash

I believe it is supposed to have some tension in it. In fact, when I spoke
to a trainer about the way I was doing it, he told me to make sure that I
shortened up on the right side of the leash, the part that was attached to
the gentle leader, so that I could feel exactly where my dog's head was
going. If I couldn't already. I do not put the leash over my wrist if Dallas
is wearing the gentle leader. He does not appreciate that very much.

Sent from my iPad

> On Mar 15, 2015, at 12:34 PM, Tracy Carcione via nagdu <nagdu at nfbnet.org>
wrote:
> 
> I've been working Krokus with the Gentle Leader all the time this last 
> week, and it's starting to make a difference.  He's turning from a 
> good dog into the excellent dog I always knew he could be.  He's still 
> a bit slow, and sometimes hesitant, but he's getting better about that,
too.
> 
> I'd like to hear how other TSE graduates hold the leash with the GL, 
> since TSE leashes seem to be the shortest out there-something I generally
like.
> 
> I am attaching the small snap to the GL and the big snap to the 
> collar, and holding the leash against the harness with 2 fingers.  It 
> still seems to be taut when I'm pulling back on the harness to have 
> good tension in the handle, which is very important to Krokus.  Is the 
> leash supposed to have some tension in it?  Is there a better way to 
> hold it?  I tried attaching the leash only to the GL, but that wasn't 
> enough tension, and K started diving again.
> 
> Tracy
> 
> 
> 
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