[nagdu] relieving

[leyeshprintse at gmx.fr]

BS"D

Rachel,

Welcome to the list! My name is Leye-Shprintse and I am working my first guide dog from SrF:s Ledarhundsverksamhet (Guide Dogs Sweden); we've been a team for over two years now. My dog is named Hera and she is a four-year-old black Labrador Retriever girl; we're located in the capital of Sweden and right now, we're studying French full-time at the University of Stockholm.

Anyhow, to your question. In Sweden, we don't learn how to pick up after our dogs and the reason for it is that we have a lot of nature here. When I returned home with Hera, I asked my mum and Twin sister to teach me Hera's pee and poo signals so that I would be able to pick up after her. Today, it is a normal routine and I guess that many guide dogs' schools in the United States teach their owners the 'picking up techiques'; a GDB owner told me how I could do it when Hera and I were learning it.

Good luck with your decision!

Kind regards,
Leye-Shprintse and Hera <3