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Volunteers Among Us - Becoming a Seeing Eye Dog Trainer
We asked our agents how, where and why they do volunteer work in the community. Our Roscoe agent Barbara Fry has shared the story of her journey in becoming a Leader Dog trainer to share with you! Below is an entry in her story first posted here: Volunteers Among Us – Becoming a Seeing Eye Dog Trainer
August 3, 2015 - Oci is now 10 months old. He is big and he is beautiful. He weighed 75 pounds last month and I have not checked this month. He will be a good strong leader!
His training has slowed down a bit since he can no longer take classes at the Kennel Club. The dog flu is still around and there are dogs in McHenry county who died from it, so Leader Dogs has banned their dogs from going anywhere other dogs may be, this included the Kennel Club. I have been working with him at home and he knows the basic commands. IF he chooses to do them depends on his mood!
Oci will have to be tested sometime in the next month. This is called "In For Training" test and he will be tested on many things.
Barbara Fry, Broker – Dickerson & Nieman Roscoe
- The basic commands
- The ability to sit or stand still on lead while meeting new people (this one worries me)
- The basic body check - this is where someone touches all over his body, ears, feet, teeth and so on and he has to remain still during this.
- Loose lead walking (again going to demand on his day)
- Walking along side traffic noise and during distractions. ie: ball throwing (yikes!)