[NAGDU] Trip journal

[Star Gazer]

			Cindy, I think  missing working with a dog is
normal. I haven't used a dog in years and there are days when I miss it,
when the weather is nice, when the dog and I were in synch, when I have had
plenty of sleep and don't need to do something, or more correctly when I can
determine how long a given activity will take which really hasn't happened
since I had my kids. I think what I miss and maybe you do too are the good
times. I don't miss the dog screwing around. I don't miss needing to take
the dog out when all I really wanted to do was cuddle and care for my oldest
daughter. I don't miss the logestics of kids and dogs. 
In any event, the schools aren't going anyplace and if you do decide you
want another dog, you can get one. 

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Maybe you need to really wait until the dust settles then. LOL. He has sure
stretched your imagination, hasn't he? I wonder if I got another dog what it
would be like. Fisher was great except for the dog distractions. I couldn't
afford to have him pull me down anymore. It hurts too much. He didn't want
to quit though. Now that I have had time to think about it (a year) I think
that maybe I was too hasty, and I miss working with him. He misses it, too.
So write down the good, the bad, and the ugly. Then when you have gotten
away from it a little bit, that is when to rate. In the heat of the moment
you won't give a very objective response.
Cindy Lou Ray
cindyray at gmail.com


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Cindy, you and Julie J seem to agree on this.  I don't think I could really
give a completely objective rating, anyway.  But, like last night, Krokus
was bad starting out, then did well all the way until we reached home, then
scavenged something, which made me really annoyed.  If I'd rated that trip
right away, it would have been a 2, even though most of it was actually
good.  Krokus, the dog who guides on a bell curve.
Tracy


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What if you rate how you feel at the end of the trip rather than how he did.
For instance, if he started out sniffing a bunch and you wanted to choke
him, and then he picks up speed and starts doing lots of things right, then
how do you feel at the end. Or if he does something really special even
though some of the trip has you feeling a little nonplussed, how do you
feel. I am wondering if the rating of your reaction to the trip would be
better. Not sure, of course.
Cindy Lou Ray
cindyray at gmail.com


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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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