[NAGDU] Seeing Eye training techniques

[Sherry Gomes]

My current guide dog is from guiding eyes. I embraced food rewards when I had dogs from GDB. I certainly do not give my dog a kibble reward every single time she stops at a curb. She never knows when she'll get it. My only exception is off leash recall. I had a dog once who had terrible off leash recall and had some close calls because of it. My dog knows she'll get a kibble, one kibble, if she comes to me. I also up or lessen her food at meal times, depending on how many treats she had during the day. I think it's important to know what motivates each individual dog. My dog before this one was a golden retriever. She didn't like to eat anyway and definitely would not accept food during working. 



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Sent: Thursday, June 6, 2024 4:57 PM
To: Elizabeth Rene via NAGDU <nagdu at nfbnet.org>
Cc: Sean Moore <seanmoore87 at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [NAGDU] Seeing Eye training techniques

I don't  know  if  I should  chime  in  or not.  but  for me gaving gone  through  " Traditional training" with  my  first and  second dogs from  Southeastern and  now  Guide DOgs  for the Blind GDB who  uses food reward as  re-enforcement, Augie  only normally  gets  a food reward  at a  down curb and up curb  to re-enforce  that  they  are Desirable targets.  I use  food reward  for  personal  targets  I always  wnat  him  to stop  at and  I feel like he's a smarter dog with  using the  food reward   In conjunction with his great memory stuff for.


the  clicker is  used  to  Teach new  targets and  then rewarded for finding it that  first  few times.


yours,

Sean Moore  and  Guide Dog: Augie


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