[nagdu] relieving

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>From the album "Meet the Piddles"?  

----- Original Message -----

From: "Tracy Carcione" <carcione at access.net> 
To: "NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users" <nagdu at nfbnet.org> 
Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2014 10:12:09 AM 
Subject: Re: [nagdu] relieving 

When I was a newby at GDB, we sang it as: 
Leash relieve me, let me go, 
For I can't hold it anymore. 
To pee inside would be a sin; 
Relieve me, then we can both go in. 

A classic. 
Tracy 


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Doug Parisian" <eggmann at mymts.net> 
To: "NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users" 
<nagdu at nfbnet.org> 
Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2014 11:32 AM 
Subject: Re: [nagdu] relieving 


> Indeed, the numbers one and two no doubt have serious personality issues. 
> Makes me think of the Bill Cosby routine or that song by Mr. Humperdink 
> (the name itself speaks volumes.) 
> Please relieve me, let me go; cause I can't hold it any more. 
> 
> Sometimes I just can't help myself. 
> 
> On 19/02/2014 10:25 AM, Deanna Lewis wrote: 
>> I think it's funny the different terms that schools use to cue the dog to 
>> use the bathroom. 
>> At GDB we use, "Do your business". Since I've had my dog almost five 
>> years, now I just say "ok", once I put him on a long leash. 
>> Some schools call it relieving, some call it parking, etc. 
>> It's just amusing how many different words can describe it! LOL. 
>> Deanna and Pascal 
>> 
>> -----Original Message----- 
>> From: nagdu [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Daryl Marie 
>> Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2014 11:04 AM 
>> To: NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users 
>> Subject: Re: [nagdu] relieving 
>> 
>> Hi, Leye-Shprintse, 
>> It is  very interesting to hear how different schools teach different 
>> techniques.  In Canada and the USA it is customary to pick up after your 
>> dog out of politeness if nothing else.  Good on you for asking your 
>> sister and mum to show you Her'a signals. 
>> 
>> Jenny, my almost-2-year-old black lab, is very VERY obvious when she is 
>> peeing or pooping... and if she is working and needs to do her business 
>> (we call it "getting busy" so that Jenny knows it's OK) she will slow 
>> down and turn her head against my leg, almost as a way of getting my 
>> attention.  Usually we will be OK to get where we're going before I have 
>> to take the harness off and have her "get busy", but there are times when 
>> she will just... not... move until she's done herbusiness. 
>> 
>> Funny girl! 
>> 
>> Daryl 
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: leyeshprintse at gmx.fr 
>> To: nagdu at nfbnet.org 
>> Sent: Wed, 19 Feb 2014 08:48:50 -0700 (MST) 
>> Subject: [nagdu]  relieving 
>> 
>> 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 
>> 
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