[nagdu] new guide dog user with questions

Tue Aug 14 02:50:12 UTC 2012

Are you training your own dog or is a school working with you?

Cindy Lou

On Aug 14, 2012, at 9:46 PM, becky sabo wrote:

> Hi all,
> This is Becky Sabo.  I have a new guide dog that I am working.  I am doing
> home training.  I have not had a dog for a year and when I started my dog on
> Saturday it felt weird using the harnest but soon it was good.  I feel that
> we are a very good working team for a very short time.
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
> Of Buddy Brannan
> Sent: Monday, August 13, 2012 4:17 PM
> To: NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users
> Subject: Re: [nagdu] new guide dog user with questions
> 
> Not just new handlers, but older ones, too, with new dogs. It's an issue for
> me, too, every time, to one extent or another. But, it gets better, and
> you'll be working together so smoothly you won't remember anything else,
> before you know it. BTW, yes, you handled the correction thing perfectly. In
> fact, probably better than I would, this being an honest assessment of
> myself. 
> --
> Buddy Brannan, KB5ELV - Erie, PA
> Phone: (814) 860-3194 or 888-75-BUDDY
> 
> 
> 
> On Aug 13, 2012, at 6:05 PM, Marsha Drenth <marsha.drenth at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Mona,
>> 
>> Trust with your pup will come in time. All new handlers deal with the
> trust of a new pup, some quicker than others. I would say check with your
> foot, but then transition to using your cane for the checking. And after a
> while, after your have been traveling in the same areas for a while, you
> won't need to check. The pups are trained to stay in the middle of the
> sidewalk, and to take you from curb to curb. 
>> 
>> Good luck, and if you have other questions, ask away!
>> 
>> 
>> Marsha drenthSent from my iPhone
>> 
>> On Aug 13, 2012, at 2:59 PM, Ramona Davidson <ramonadavidson88 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> 
>>> Thanks everyone for all the wonderful replies, I'll clarify, when 
>>> talking about checking the kerbed to make sure I wasn't in the 
>>> street, it's mainly just after I've crossed a blended drive way or if 
>>> I'm in an unfamiliar location. One place we were walking had the 
>>> parking lot blended with the sidewalk, so to make sure we weren't 
>>> veering in too far to the parking lot I'd stop and check to the side 
>>> with my foot to make sure. Note: this is clearly a trust issue with 
>>> me because he's never ever! Been too far from the curb.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On 8/13/12, Marsha Drenth <marsha.drenth at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> i know that she is on the sidewalk, and not checking the curb 
>>>> because of country work. Guess it would depend on how much a person 
>>>> checks for the curb. And what kind of sidewalk it is. Depends on what
> should be done.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Marsha drenthSent from my iPhone
>>>> 
>>>> On Aug 13, 2012, at 10:17 AM, Cindy Ray <cindyray at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> The kind of checking for the curb, from what I understood, is not 
>>>>> the same as country work. She is on the sidewalk and going off to 
>>>>> check where the street is. That isn't the same as being trained for
> country work, I think.
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> CL
>>>>> 
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