[NAGDU] Belto's Problems mostly resolved.

[Lyn Gwizdak]

Hi Jordan,
Ah, dog distractions! Ari gets dog distracted as well. But nothing I can't
handle.

What I do is think about where I will be going. Which means know your area.
Know where you are most likely to run into pet dogs. And when. Many people
walk their dogs in early morning and then supper time after work. Put the
pinch collar on Balto.

I find that guide dogs do recognise another guide dog. They know what the
harness looks like and hear the same commands that they follow. Dogs are
excellent with body language in humans and other animals.

A friend will hear a dog coming and he will stop, put his dog at sit, and
wait for the dog to pass. As long as your dog stays seated, give calm
praise for maintaining the sit. If your dog breaks the sit, correct and put
it at sit again.

HTH!

Lyn and Aristotle, my 10th guide

On Jul 14, 2017 8:36 AM, "Jordan Gallacher via NAGDU" <nagdu at nfbnet.org>
wrote:

> John just plain told me to stop doing it like I was doing, which was quite
> a
> bit of praise.  Well, as the instructors and I have discovered over the
> past
> couple of days, Belto works much better with a lot of praise, and I am now
> doing so.  My attitude if you have not figured that out already, is to do
> whatever needs to be done to keep Belto working properly which means take
> the advice I am given from this list and reps from Leader and figure out
> what will work best.  Hopefully, I now have more tools to use and will be
> abel to use the pinch collar less than I was having to do, but it
> definitely
> will still be a tool I will use when needed if nothing else works.
> Jordan and Belto
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Subject: Re: [NAGDU] Belto's Problems mostly resolved.
>
> Jordan,
>
> I'm glad you were able to get things sorted there. Yay! The On the Go
> harness is nice, isn't it? I was so happy Julie started making those again.
> I now have a leather harness for more formal occasions, and we used that
> for
> several months to get it broken in. But it was so nice when the weather
> heated up to just bring out the cool, light sports harness. It will be our
> everyday harness from now on.
>
> Just out of curiosity... Did they tell you not to praise Belto the way you
> did in class, or were you not praising him and need to do more?
>
> I know some dogs find a lot of chatter from their handler distracting, so
> constant praise isn't helpful. Mine are on the opposite end of the scale,
> which is a good thing because I am an incorrigible dog talker.
> /lol/ Most of my training method involves gushing with praise over every
> little thing my dog does, which means I'm conditioning myself to gush with
> praise over everything my dog does. Eventually, I get a grip on myself,
> usually long after the dog has stopped needing any of it. I also get
> addicted to the clicker, but I'm using it more for me than for the dog. My
> dogs must go around rolling their eyes a lot at what a goofy handler they
> have to deal with. /lol/ Weirdly, my misuse of both praise and clicker
> doesn't seem to affect their guide work. I do do things properly during
> training, so I guess by the time I get sloppy, they just know what to do
> and
> do it. Yet if I want to do some clicker training for a new activity, they
> respond to that, too. So I guess they've figured things out better than I
> have.
>
> Anyway, that's why I was curious about the role of praise in your dog's
> work, if you don't mind explaining a bit.
>
> Tami
>
>
>
> On 07/13/2017 02:46 PM, Jordan Gallacher via NAGDU wrote:
> > Well, good news is most of Belto's issues I have previously reported
> > have been solved.  It is appearing like some of the problems came
> > about because of what my instructor/field rep was telling me not to do
> > including telling me not to praise Belto like I was trying to do in
> > class.  Thanks to the two reps that are here from Leader, problems
> > such as going down stairs and other working issues have mostly been
> > resolved.  Not totally sure what is up with the harness still, but
> > since I purchased a harness from On the Go the other day, the Leader
> > Dog harness is no longer the primary harness I use.  So things are
> > going well, and as long as I do what the reps here have told me, things
> will continue to go well.
> >
> > Jordan and Belto
> >
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