[nagdu] Play time

Wed Apr 21 20:27:13 UTC 2010

Sometimes, when I try to use clicker training with Lexia, she gets so 
excited that she misses the point of whatever I am trying to teach her.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tamara Smith-Kinney" <tamara.8024 at comcast.net>
To: "'NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users'" 
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Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2010 11:41 AM
Subject: Re: [nagdu] Play time

> Julie,
>
> Oh, yeah!  I forgot clicker training for fun.  Our dogs like competing 
> with
> each other over the targeting clicker.  /lol/  Oddly, they do get trained 
> in
> the process, even though I pretty much use the targeting clicker to
> entertain them and get them to be less inappropriately rowdy and 
> obnoxious.
> /smile/
>
> Mitzi likes to run wild, run free, too, while I walk or even try jogging 
> in
> the park.  She's mature enough now to pretty good with her off leash
> behavior, but she likes to test the limits so I can call her back.  "In
> bounds," I will say absently.  She grins and whirls and *dashes* back at 
> top
> speed.  "Lightening Poodle!" I laugh happily.  We don't have a place to
> really do that these days because in the areas I can walk freely on safe
> ground and even jog a bit safely (if I manage to fall on my face, I will
> just bounce off the springy turf), some of the people in the houses
> overlooking that part of the park have taken it upon themselves to ensure 
> no
> dogs behaving themselves off leash when no one is around will eat the
> children -- even when the children are at home or in school and nowhere 
> near
> those dangerous killer dogs.  Sigh.  Well, the park rules do require an
> actual leash, so I have little ground to argue...  I tried requesting
> reasonable accommodation, but we're in the middle of a pendulum swing with
> loose dogs, so my request was not treated as reasonable.  The guy was
> polite, everybody's been polite, but they just don't want to deal with the
> conflict between the people who call to report and complain and the dog
> owners who chose to play in the big field when there is a designated off
> leash area right there.  I get that, but I also get that the ground is not
> so safe for me as a blind person, the trees and picnic tables are pretty
> exhausting when I'm walking around, and the running dogs and people are
> enjoyable, and I like them, but they're also a safety hazard.  Then 
> there's
> the value of my dog's training and the increased likelihood of injury just
> from playing dogs, let alone the dog who comes into the off leash area who
> shouldn't be allowed around other dogs.  Sheesh!
>
> We still manage and get some play in there.  I'm good enough at jogging 
> that
> we jog together with her on leash, so that's cool.  She loves that, too.
>
> She also loves to work, especially on long walks and hikes where we can 
> get
> out and go together.  I still use the clicker for positive reinforcement,
> even though I don't really need it from a training perspective anymore. 
> She
> enjoys being clicked for her cleverness at problem solving and stuff, so I
> click so she can have fun and validation.  /smile/  She really, really 
> gets
> a kick out of it.
>
> In other words, for her, work is play.  She is a poodle, after all. 
> /smile/
>
> Tami Smith-Kinney
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
> Of Julie J
> Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2010 4:49 AM
> To: NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users
> Subject: Re: [nagdu] Play time
>
> Monty's most favorite playtime activity is to run free on our farm.  He
> doesn't get to do this very often though.  He also enjoys serious tug 
> games,
>
> but I can't really play those because I can't hold onto the toys so well.
> He enjoys fetch quite a bit and it tends to be our default game.  I also
> allow both of my dogs to wrestle and play tug games together.
> they both also very much enjoy learning new things through clicker 
> training.
>
> We do more of this during the winter months when it's harder to get 
> exercise
>
> outside.
>
> Julie
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Cheryl Osborn" <chapalacheryl at gmail.com>
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> <nagdu at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2010 10:12 PM
> Subject: [nagdu] Play time
>
>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> Thought it might be interesting to find out what you and your dogs
>> like to do for play.
>>
>> My dog likes to play keep-away and wrestle with a toy. And, sometimes
>> tug-of-war.  My last dog liked to play hide-and-go-seek. My first dog
>> was Kong crazy.
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Cheryl in Mexico
>> chapalacheryl at gmail.com
>>
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