[nagdu] An achievement with Taylor

[Tracy Carcione]

It's great when it all starts to come together, and your hard work starts
to pay off!
Tracy

> 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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