[NAGDU] Belto's Problems mostly resolved.

[Tami Jarvis]

Jordan,

I'm glad you were able to get things sorted there. Yay! The On the Go 
harness is nice, isn't it? I was so happy Julie started making those 
again. I now have a leather harness for more formal occasions, and we 
used that for several months to get it broken in. But it was so nice 
when the weather heated up to just bring out the cool, light sports 
harness. It will be our everyday harness from now on.

Just out of curiosity... Did they tell you not to praise Belto the way 
you did in class, or were you not praising him and need to do more?

I know some dogs find a lot of chatter from their handler distracting, 
so constant praise isn't helpful. Mine are on the opposite end of the 
scale, which is a good thing because I am an incorrigible dog talker. 
/lol/ Most of my training method involves gushing with praise over every 
little thing my dog does, which means I'm conditioning myself to gush 
with praise over everything my dog does. Eventually, I get a grip on 
myself, usually long after the dog has stopped needing any of it. I also 
get addicted to the clicker, but I'm using it more for me than for the 
dog. My dogs must go around rolling their eyes a lot at what a goofy 
handler they have to deal with. /lol/ Weirdly, my misuse of both praise 
and clicker doesn't seem to affect their guide work. I do do things 
properly during training, so I guess by the time I get sloppy, they just 
know what to do and do it. Yet if I want to do some clicker training for 
a new activity, they respond to that, too. So I guess they've figured 
things out better than I have.

Anyway, that's why I was curious about the role of praise in your dog's 
work, if you don't mind explaining a bit.

Tami



On 07/13/2017 02:46 PM, Jordan Gallacher via NAGDU wrote:
> Well, good news is most of Belto's issues I have previously reported have
> been solved.  It is appearing like some of the problems came about because
> of what my instructor/field rep was telling me not to do including telling
> me not to praise Belto like I was trying to do in class.  Thanks to the two
> reps that are here from Leader, problems such as going down stairs and other
> working issues have mostly been resolved.  Not totally sure what is up with
> the harness still, but since I purchased a harness from On the Go the other
> day, the Leader Dog harness is no longer the primary harness I use.  So
> things are going well, and as long as I do what the reps here have told me,
> things will continue to go well.
> 
> Jordan and Belto
> 
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