(VICT) Re: Kitchen Timers
- From: "Tamara Smith-Kinney" <tamara.8024@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <vi-clicker-trainers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2008 12:54:30 -0800
Karyn,
Here are a couple of other sites I've found useful:
http://www.lssproducts.com/
http://www.maxiaids.com/
http://www.enablemart.com/Catalog
They all carry products for hearing impaired, and the prices are not too
heinous.
Your delightful Thane stories have helped me track down the reason I
constantly feel like I have training issues when my dog is clearly =
learning
well and is ahead of schedule in her task performance. She's not a =
border
collie! I spent so much of my early life surrounded by and observing
herding dogs that all of the base assumptions I used to come up with my
original draft training plan (which Mitsy shredded in under a week) =
applied
to BCs and their ilk. I've been too busy adapting to Mitsy's behavior =
and
learning style to go back and figure out what happened. /rotfl/ I'm =
such a
ditz sometimes.
I have to confess that it troubles me terribly that, after nearly a year =
of
training, my dog is virtually incapable of heeling. She knows how, and =
she
does try; but unless she's on the verge of collapse from exhaustion, she
can't manage more than a couple of minutes before she starts to move out
ahead. She did heel all the way home one night when I lost her leash at =
the
park. We went through a lot of treats between there and here to manage =
it,
I assure you.
Then again, she naturally does leash guiding. Which I inadvertently =
trained
her out of trying to teach her to maintain a good heel. Now we're =
heading
back in that direction on our walks, but so far she's simply mad with
freedom. /lol/ She's getting over it and settling back into her =
natural
way of moving ahead while making sure to keep me out of trouble. If I'm
having orientation problems with my cane, she will drop back to nudge me
back onto the straight and narrow -- or out of the way of overhangs -- =
then
go back to her apparently carefree trailblazing. Okay, that's not the =
same
as formal leash guiding, but the principles are there.
We're working on maintaining a nice, tight heel in other ways, because =
we do
need to have that in our toolkit. But when we're out and about and =
being
casual, I figure that as long as what we're doing works for us, we might =
as
well got with it and refine it.
Still, whoever heard of a dog who doesn't just heel whether it's trained =
or
not?
Are we sure that BCs and poodles are, in fact, the same species? =
/smile/
Keep up the good work, and don't drown in the monsoons and typhoons.
Tami Smith-Kinney
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Sent: Friday, January 04, 2008 11:54 AM
To: vi-clicker-trainers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: (VICT) Re: Kitchen Timers
karen, have you tried www.independentliving.com?
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From: "bcpaws4me" <bcpaws4me@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Vi-clicker" <vi-clicker-trainers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, January 04, 2008 10:56 AM
Subject: (VICT) Kitchen Timers
I know this is not a hearing dog list Smile but I have a querry that I =
think
folks here might be able to better answer for me than on the hearing dog
list I just joined. I am looking for tactile kitchen timers. Though I am
deaf-blind, I am looking for audible ones so that Thane can respond to =
them.
Is there a good resource where I might buy something like this online =
that
hopefully won't charge an arm and a leg. I am going to want at least 3 =
of
them- preferrably 4 but price will determine how many I can buy =
initially.
If anyone here can point me in the right direction to get some good =
ones,
I'd really appreciate it. Thane is already showing hearing dog instincts =
and
I want to work on this while he is being *Mr. I heard that, you did not*
Karyn and Thane
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