[NAGDU] Progress already

[Danielle Sykora]

I'm so glad Krokus is making progress so quickly. It seems like he
understands what you're looking for, but he just needs a little
refresher. I totally understand the difficulty with overgrown bushes
and such. I live in an area with narrow sidewalks and a lot of trees
and foliage. If the sidewalk is totally blocked, I expect Thai to find
the way around it of course. If the sidewalk is only half obstructed,
I have him stop and show it to me, and then squeeze by or just kind of
push branches out of the way. It's usually better than walking around
it in the street. I'm trying to teach him a specific command that
means to walk in front of me to make it completely clear that's what
I'm looking for rather than just stepping behind him in narrow spaces,
but we'll see how that goes.

Danielle and Thai

On 7/16/16, Tracy Carcione via NAGDU <nagdu at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> Already I'm seeing progress in my efforts to get Krokus to be more careful
> about what's on my right.
>
> Lunchtime Thursday, he cut a corner to get where we were headed and pushed
> me into a very shallow cutout.  I stopped and scolded him, and made him
> re-work it.  He nailed it, and right away I could feel him paying more
> attention.  I've had to stop and show him a few places since, where bushes
> were growing way over the sidewalk, and he's understood right away what was
> wrong and done better.  It's hard, when people let their bushes pretty much
> block the sidewalk.  The choices are to squeeze past, or to step off into
> the grass, which is sometimes quite a drop.  So I'm telling Krokus to stop,
> show me the obstacle, then we squeeze past, carefully.  Sometimes I think I
> should walk around town with a machete.
>
>
>
> I've also gotten out the clicker and treat bag so I can click the downcurb
> and stop his tendency to creep up to it.
>
>
>
> I'm really pleased with the puppinator.  Seems like all he needed was a bit
> of a reminder about what's expected.  We'll se how he does Monday in the
> City, when he's usually a bit excited.  Wish I was so enthusiastic about
> Monday morning.
>
> Tracy
>
>
>
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