[nagdu] Ismael not doing things right

[Shannon Dyer]

Hi, Ramona.

I would definitely call TSE again. The street is not a good place to get distracted, as I'm sure you know. It sounds like you've tried all the standard things. Hopefully, the school will have other suggestions for you.

Good luck.

Shannon
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On Aug 19, 2012, at 4:04 PM, Ramona Davidson wrote:

> I am so stressed at this point i'm really not sure what to do.
> ismaels guide work has been less than desirable as of late. last
> saturday i took him to the vet for an ear infection which is all
> cleared up now. we started having serious issues around that time, not
> going all the way to kurbs, extreme vearing when crossing streets, and
> just not listening to me. i chocked it up to the ear infection but
> gave tse a call anyway, they told me that i should probably not walk
> with my son for a wile to see if ismaels attention issue would clear
> up, so i was pritty sure my son was the distraction. a few days ago
> ismael started vearing extremely off course  i thought he was just
> asuming I was wanting to go to places we had been before so i worried
> about it but once again chocked it up to my son being with us.
> 
> today, I did some ONM on the college campus and my son stayed at home
> with his daddy. I would have to say this has been the worss day yet.
> wile crossing streets: I would feel him vearing and try to correct him
> but he wouldn't listen. then we decided to do the street crossing
> sighted guide and i did the sit, praze, good boy, tap my foot thing at
> the kurbs  and it didn't work. we showed him exactly where we wanted
> him to go and he still did not cross strate.
> another issue, every time we would walk down the sidewalk and get up
> to the intersection instead of taking me to the kurb he'd cut the
> corner turn right and keep going down the street. i corrected him time
> and time again, took him to the kurb, made him sit, tapped it with my
> foot told him good boy, I must have done this about a million times,
> he still would not go to the kurb.
> we then did some clicker training to the pole thinking that if i could
> at least get him to go to the pole  instead of going to the right than
> i could at least get my self the rest of the way to the kurb, as long
> as the treats were flowing and the clicker was out he went directly to
> that pole every single time, as soon as the training was finished he
> started zooming right past the pole again. i'm so frustrated.
> 
> I seriously want to bang my head against the wall right now. the onm
> instructor says I seem to be doing everything right and she says i
> need to get the seeing eye to come out but they keep  blowing it off
> saying it's because we are still new, well i have tryed everything
> they suggested and still no change.
> 
> is there anything i could be doing wrong??
> 
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