[NAGDU] Fear of skateboards

[Brent Franklin]

Take your dog to a skate park, with a good book to read, find somewhere to
sit and read acting very calm.

You might offer your dog a treat or two every 20 minutes while sitting
there.

One week later repeat this, before you know it your dog is likely to be
taking no notice at all.

Cheers.

Brent.

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From: NAGDU [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Carmella Broome
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Sent: Sunday, 28 March 2021 12:12 PM
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Cc: Carmella Broome
Subject: [NAGDU] Fear of skateboards

My  guide dog was startled by a skateboarder  one morning and has  become
increasingly  anxious when she  sees  people  riding (or even carrying)
skateboards. There  are a group of guys who  come to the  parking lot of a
building across the street from where we live  to skateboard  every  Sat.
and Sun.  They have been doing this for years and she has seen them riding
around and jumping  plenty of times. Now, she  gets  nervous and
distracted when she sees them or if we encounter other skateboarders while
on walks. We live near a university so  this happens more  often than it
might  otherwise.  My husband and I are trying to  get her comfortable
with them again, at a distance and using treats.  She is really weirded
out, though. I would appreciate anyone's advice on how you might approach
this or hearing about experiences with your dogs and skateboards. I don't
know how common this might be.  Its always amazing how  years of  neutral
(or even positive) experiences  with something can seemingly be wiped out
by one negative experience.  My dog was somewhat sensitive to   things
that looked weird to her when I  first got her.  She seemed to   get past
that fora few years.  This started to happen again  during the past year.
She just turned eight.  I'm worried that this is going to start happening
more often with more things.

Thanks,
Carmella

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