More Harness Insight
Today Tim was able to demonstrate a couple of things too me.....
As you all know, when training our dogs to walk on a loose leash, the LAST thing you want to do, is try to PULL them in the opposite direction; as you know, all that makes the dog want to do is pull harder. Well when working with Autistic children, we put this to good use.
Most autistic children are in constant motion, so the HT had my sister Robyn, walk back and forth kind of bouncing of the harness, as an AChild would do. Which meant Tim had to pull against the harness to keep Robyn walking with me. I would give him the command "Bring Her/Him" and that meant he was to lean into the harness and pull her to me. If Robyn was to try to walk to explore something, he was to "Bring Her" and as we were walking Robyn was to be constantly going in the opposite direction; which meant Tim had to concentrate on keep her with me.
And the light bulb went on.
He did everything perfectly :D so as a reward, he got a lot of off leash time today :D
- When he has a job to do, he does it, and is a completely different dog
- What else the harness is there for!
As you all know, when training our dogs to walk on a loose leash, the LAST thing you want to do, is try to PULL them in the opposite direction; as you know, all that makes the dog want to do is pull harder. Well when working with Autistic children, we put this to good use.
Most autistic children are in constant motion, so the HT had my sister Robyn, walk back and forth kind of bouncing of the harness, as an AChild would do. Which meant Tim had to pull against the harness to keep Robyn walking with me. I would give him the command "Bring Her/Him" and that meant he was to lean into the harness and pull her to me. If Robyn was to try to walk to explore something, he was to "Bring Her" and as we were walking Robyn was to be constantly going in the opposite direction; which meant Tim had to concentrate on keep her with me.
And the light bulb went on.
He did everything perfectly :D so as a reward, he got a lot of off leash time today :D
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