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Obstacle Avoidance for Guiding and Leading Tasks (Patreon)

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2024-07-19 01:00:03
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Hey Folks!
This week's video is all about guiding and leading tasks and, more specifically, obstacle avoidance. I'll go over the foundation skills needed before you start obstacle work, and then show you the setup and beginning steps to training your dog to guide you around solid obstacles.

A little behind the scenes commentary:

This video was really funny to make because when I was working Lyric, who is my dad's 8 year old, seasoned guide dog, and I started working these very beginner skills, she was very clearly looking at me like "what the hell are we doing right now? I know how to walk around a barrier!". Watch for parts of the video where she looks a little bit confused about why she's getting a cookie for stopping at a basic curb on leash (something she's done thousands of times) LOL! But she was an absolute trooper about it, and hopefully this will help you understand what goes into training a guide dog, as well as help you formulate a plan for training your own dog for guiding or leading tasks.

Note: I use "guiding" when referring to a dog working with a blind or visually impaired handler, and use "leading" tasks to denote tasks in which the dog is navigating a space for a sighted handler, such as finding an exit or seat during a panic attack.

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How to Train Obstacle Avoidance for Guide Dogs & Service Dog Leading and Navigation Tasks

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Comments

Claudia

Glad to hear Guide Dog training is working towards positive reinforcement training vs. aversive.

DOGGY•U
>>144034386

The school I worked for was actually the first school to adopt clicker training. I’m not going to pretend there aren’t still major problems within the industry, but they’ve also made considerable strides over the past two decades.

Earth2Wendy

Ha, I thought it was Michele Pouliot who got the R+ ball rolling out in CA. Good on FidelCo! Citing guide dog schools’ near universal shift (if I understand this right) to R+ based training is my favorite argument for it among trad trainers

Wiyan Wakan

I have been playing a game with my service dog in the stores. Who ever I'm with we will separate. I tell her to " Find so and so" ( either my son, daughter or husband) and let her lead me through. She has been getting better and better each time finding them. When she finds the person she's rewarded with petting and hugs from them. Last weekend we were looking for my husband and he had back tracked down through an isle that led to the garden center. We got to the garden center and there was another dog there. A big one. I don't know if it was service but I have made a point of training her we avoid them when we are in the store "on duty." My dog suddenly stopped dead in her tracks. She was leading still. She looked at the dog. She then looked up at me. She looked at the dog, and then back at me. She then promptly led me to the left away from the garden center and back to the aisle we had been on before. I thought perhaps she was tracking the other dog, even though she led me away from it. I took her to the front of the store stopping our game and called my husband on the cell phone. He was around the end further down where she was trying to go a different path. We were just a hop ,skip and a jump from him. I didn't trust her enough. I messed up. Im still in need of training too! 😂

DOGGY•U
>>144037880

Michele Pouliot was absolutely instrumental in the shift, but I was told, perhaps erroneously that FIdelco was the first to adopt actual clickers. But, could be wrong 🤷🏼‍♀️ In any event, I was started on clicker training day one at FIdelco 15 years ago. And, not all schools have adopted R+ training methods but the majority have significantly transitioned in that direction, at least in the learning phase. Then there’s also the topic of transitioning handlers that have been used to a specific method. I helped introduce lots of “old school” handlers to the benefits of R+ in their guide work. Still room for improvement ;)

Earth2Wendy

Thanks! That’s interesting background. My sister raised 20+ Michigan-based Leader Dog pups, leash-jerking the first series of them into submission as per LD protocol. When i signed up for the basic Pryor course I invited her to join me. Everything seemed to change at the same time—her awakening, mine, and LDs’. It felt dramatic and liberating. [removed personal detail] [I]t had a big, positive impact [on us both and] our sister relationship too—something new & exciting to share! We attended 2 Expos together and are still reaping the rewards, along with our dogs of course. :-)

Zeke or Storm

I dissociate really badly and am in a wheelchair, so the most helpful "guidework" my new dog could do would be to let me know if it was safe to cross the street (with me checking too, but I have trouble with awareness of surroundings from autism and my dissociative disorder) and let me know if I was about to crash into someone. I have no idea how/if this is even a safe things to try to train, though. I'm getting my dog at 1 year old from a service dog organization knowing at least 3 tasks (I've asked for medical alert for POTS, retrieval, and grounding), but they said they'll work with me for an additional year to train more tasks. I don't think they do any guidework, though.

DOGGY•U
>>146371629

Hey Zeke - So traffic training is a really complicated skill that involves the car training the dog, which involves needing a skilled driver who has done traffic training before to basically do half of the training, as the car needs to come in and then be able to back out immediately after the dog notices/reacts to/stops for the car. It's a lot of timing and driving backwards, and then you have to genearlize and keep up that skill. And, if the dog isn't actively guiding, it would be difficult for him to stop you in time. I personally have never done traffic for a non-program dog, and I'm not sure exactly how it would be accomplished in the split second it needs to be accomplished when using a wheelchair. I'm not saying it can't be done, just that I'm not sure how it would work.