[NAGDU] distracted relieving

[Jean Menzies]

I'm glad you have found a workable solution for your girl. It makes it 
easier that she is a once-a-day pooper, as you say.

I'm also wondering about feeding schedules and transit time for the GI 
track. I currently feed twice a day, morning around 7 or 8 a.m. and then 
around 4 or 5 p.m. I've just started a trial of feeding him a smaller meal 
in the morning and a larger one in the afternoon/evening. I'm hoping that he 
will then poop mostly in the morning, and then have a clearer system 
throughout the day. Is there any logic in that?

I have no idea if puppy raisers try to teach the pups not to park on route 
or not. Way back in the day, I remember being taught to correct for this, 
but that thinking seems to be out of favour now. Now it seems to be positive 
reshaping of the park time behaviour, so that's what I'm trying to work on.



-----Original Message----- 
From: Raven Tolliver via NAGDU
Sent: Friday, March 22, 2019 5:22 PM
To: NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users
Cc: Raven Tolliver
Subject: Re: [NAGDU] distracted relieving

I’m just over the first six months of my partnership with my second guide, 
and she is similar. She indicates very clearly that she needs to poop by 
doing a partial squat.  So I have two places on route that I will give her 
the chance to relieve.  If I let her, she will sniff around for 20 minutes 
before parking, or  just sniff around a bunch, not park because I won’t give 
her the time to sniff, and then end up parking on route.
I have resolve this for the most part, and I realize my solution works 
because my dog only poops once a day.
I have gotten into the routine of making her poop before breakfast. So I 
will fix her food, leave it in her crate or on the counter, then run her 
outside. If she doesn’t poop, I bring her back inside and tie her to the 
couch with in view of the breakfast dish, and leave her there for several 
minutes. Then I’ll go back outside, and try again to get her to relieve.  It 
usually works on the first try, but sometimes there are days where I have to 
take her out twice for her to get the idea that she will not eat until she 
poops. This is not a 100% solution, as there are some days where I leave 
early enough that she just ends up parking on route. At this point, I’m just 
glad it happens outside and not inside.
It’s extremely ridiculous to me, but I guess of all the problems I could 
have, it’s not nearly the worst.
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