dec 21

My last article in the Ipswich news was a pretty good one I think.. ..  another in my series of lazy dog training.      it had humor, facts, educational facts, suggestions and things like that...  Critical in my dog training process is now going to the Beverly train station and sitting there drinking coffee in my heated or air conditioned comfort with the puppy in the back who's just getting used to all those noises without anybody getting excited or moving quickly or doing anything except just sitting there.---- no walkabout's  just heated and a/c comfort.

 

 I remember --- I think it was due to the publicity George had gotten for being service dog of the year ---in I believe 2015... I had a request to have a group of Japanese photographers and trainers come and watch me train the dogs -----so I of course said sure and they all arrived I think there were. four of them... with one speaking English we made it through the first day no problems...  I was doing my usual method of training which is for me to do a minimum amount  of  physical effort ----but by the time we got to the second day one of them asked “ when are you going to actually train the dogs?” and I said what do you mean and they said to walk around and make them walk beside you... they had no idea that the dogs already did that because of all these  semi natural things that I did with them - their whole philosophy of training was total domination.. so for me to present the fact that I expected the dogs to think was a whole new ball game... Well they all went back to Japan well the whole bunch of new ideas to share with people and that's the last I heard of him..... technically I think they thought I was crazy.  except they couldn't argue with the result.

 

that is so true with an awful lot of the obedience training that goes on for the AKC obedience trials..  absolute and instantaneous  obedience...   somewhere here I remember reading as a young child "intentional disobedience"..  as a child I thought that was wonderful idea but the concept does apply to my service dogs at any rate...  as it does to say the guiding eyes for the blind type dog...  if you tell one of their dogs to walk ahead... and there's an overhead awning that would hit their partner in the head.......--- the dog is expected to go round the awning...   for a dog to make that judgment always impressed me and I'm not too sure how you teach it ..

apparently elizabeth put a few carefully thought out  things on some wish list and last night’s mail call was the result--- you folk are wonderfully generous—and we/she ended up with 3 wheelbarrows—which I now --- at 2 am--- have put together...—and as I wandered back thru “my orders “ on amazon..... I see pictures of a delivery  of mine that got lost in her wish list----   amazon shows the picture of them being delivgered in ( now ) her doorway --- and she must have kept them----

 

 my 2 pounds of lollypops !!!~!~!~ ( for another project----)