[nagdu] An achievement with Taylor

[Dan Weiner]

Hello Lisa.
Let me first compliment you on your dazzlingly excellent written English.
I'm Dan from central Florida with my fourth  guide dog, a wonderful yellow
lab named Parker.

I congratulate you on Taylor's good behavior.
I think Taylor was just being an excitable young dog during your first few
months...I've as I said had four dogs and each one of them had his issues
the first few months, I think everything will be fine and the more Taylor
acts calm, the more you will want to go with him to all sorts of places and
things will work out.

My second dog, Evan, the one I call my super dog, was like Taylor in the
beginning, up and down, looking for things to sniff and chew and so on, yet
he became the best guide dog anyone would want and I just had to keep
working on it.

Let us know if you need anything.

Dan Weiner

dcwein at dcwein.cnc.net

Skype:
danw9703 

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Subject: [nagdu] An achievement with Taylor

Hello everyone,

A while ago, I asked all of you what I could do to keep my dog from being so
excited in public places. The main problem was he just wouldn't lie down for
more than a minute. He would get up and wanted to greet everyone that came
by or wanted to sniff around. In the beginning, I was very overwhelmed and
didn't know how to handle this properly. So I asked you. And alot of you
gave me some great advice. We did alot of practice and now had a very nice
experience. :)

We had been in an unfamiliar area and I knew that there was a small café
somewhere. When I found it, I was very hesitant to go in because I didn't
know how Taylor would behave and how the staff there would react to an
excited guide dog entering their shop. But when I opened the door, Taylor
remained quiet and waited for a command. When I told him to find the
counter, he did without any detours. After that, I told him to find a seat
and he did that flawless, too. I told him to lie down and then had a cup of
coffee. I was prepared to correct him in case he'd get up but that didn't
happen. Sometimes, when the door opened, he looked up but put his head back
to his paws again after a few seconds. We weren't far away from the counter
where cake was sold but Taylor never tried to jump for a piece of it ;-) Of
course I praised him for his good behaviour and all he did was wagging his
tail against the chair. He stayed down and was just brilliant. :) When we
wanted to leave, he had a tiny moment of distraction because he had espied a
trash can but when I strongly told him to go find the door, everything was
fine again.

I was just so proud of him afterwards. And it was so good to see that the
effort I put in training was all worth it.
And the training methods like putting a foot on the leash and tell him to
stay down instead of correcting him when he was already standing or pulling,
all came from here. So thank you very much for your input and shared
experience!

Lisa 


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