Thursday, January 19, 2012

Blog 13: Answer 1

(1) What is answer 1 to your EQ? Be specific in your answer.

I believe that the first answer to my essential question is that you need consistency in training.

(2) What possible evidence do you have to support this answer?

When I attend puppy classes and meetings, I have observed that the guide dog raiser is constantly giving their puppy a job to do, by job i mean a command ex: sit, down, quiet, stay, ect. By always having the dog perform a job, this will keep your puppy in control and will get him used to following commands the first time they are given.

(3) What source(s) did you find this evidence and/or answer?

I found this evidence from observation and from my puppy hand book. In my puppy handbook it says, at the very minimum, that i should be giving the puppy 20 repititions of the same command, so through out the day i should be practicing one command over 20 times.

Sunday, January 15, 2012

Blog 12: Service Learning

Where are you working for your service learning?
For now i am observing different puppy age group classes at Guide Dogs of America every saturday.

Who is your contact?
I need to ask my puppy leader who is in charge of roll for the classes.

Summarize the services you have performed to complete the 10 hour requirement.
I have not yet completed the 10 hours, as of now I only have 2 hours. During the Saturday classes i am there as an observer, and while i was there i learned valuable information for puppies of different ages. I learned how to properly care for a puppy's teeth, how important it is for a puppy to respond when their owner calls them and that our puppy will go through behavioral changes as they get older.

Blog 11: Third Interview Questions

1. What is the best way to train a guide dog?

2. What is the best way to raise a guide dog?

3. What was most difficult about raising your first pupppy?

4. What was most difficult about training your first puppy?

5. Were there any moments when you were completely overwhelmed? If so how did you deal with it?

6. How was it, for you and your family, adjusting to the new puppy?

7. Which command was the hardest for your puppy to learn?

8. Do you think that if you praised your dog without petting him/her they would learn a command slower?

9. Which way, do you think, is the best way to introduce your puppy to a new animal or human?

10. What do you think a family needs to have in order to make a successful guide dog?