[NAGDU] Help with obedience

[Tracy Carcione]

Hi Dar.
Obedience is generally helpful, as I need to remind myself regularly.  What
kind of help with OB do you want to get?  I've occasionally asked my husband
to help with OB by being a distraction.  I get mixed results when I ask
people to help, though.  The people get riled when I need to correct the
dog.  Still, maybe I'll have my husband drop a napkin while I do OB with
Krokus.  The ridiculous puppy has a big thing about napkins.
Tracy


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From: NAGDU [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Dar via NAGDU
Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2016 9:08 AM
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Subject: Re: [NAGDU] Trip journal

I like that idea. 
I hope with patients he will get better. Many times I find it is hard when I
truly can't hold my dog and she gets stronger than I am I hope she will out
grow this as she gets older. 
I also wondered if I tried to get help with obedience here would that help? 


Dar 
Every Saint has a past, 
Every sinner has a future, Sent from my iPad

> On Oct 26, 2016, at 6:37 AM, Tracy Carcione via NAGDU <nagdu at nfbnet.org>
wrote:
> 
> I was grumbling to a friend about my problems with Krokus, and she
suggested
> I keep a trip journal.  I write down the trip, some of the highlights and
> lowlights, and give it a rating.
> 
> It seems kinda useful, so I mention it to the list.  I can look back at
the
> last few days and see any patterns, and record what's working and what's
> not.
> 
> I'm not sure about the rating, though.  Krokus tends to be a slow starter.
> He screws around when we're starting out, then he gets in a groove and is
> good.  So the first part of a trip could be a 2 or 3, then the rest could
be
> a 7.
> 
> Then I ask myself, what's my scale?  Really, my expectation is that a
guide
> dog would attend to guiding most of the time, only sniffing or getting
> distracted a little bit.  So is that a 5, average, or a 9, with 10 being
for
> outstanding behavior, like a traffic check?  When Krokus actually goes a
> whole trip without balking or sniffing, I'm so amazed I give him a high
> rating, but I think I'm inflating his grades a bit.
> 
> Anyway, there it is, for whatever it's worth.
> 
> Tracy
> 
> 
> 
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