{"id":22664,"date":"2025-08-07T18:28:20","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T00:28:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/?p=22664"},"modified":"2025-08-07T18:28:20","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T00:28:20","slug":"the-undoer-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/07\/the-undoer-4\/","title":{"rendered":"The Undoer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Fran Jewell<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Do you love to touch and pet every dog you see? Does it make your heart smile when a puppy jumps up on you to say, \u201cHello\u201d with a sweet wagging tail and a goofy face! Are you someone that will say, \u201cOh, I don\u2019t mind if she jumps on me!\u201d then pats your legs or gets down on the puppy\u2019s level to smooch her? Are you someone who can\u2019t control yourself and will pet a dog even if the handler tells you not to because the dog is so nicely behaved and soft?<br \/>\nYou are probably an \u201cUndoer!\u201d<br \/>\nWhat is an \u201cUndoer?\u201d It is someone that may knowingly or unknowingly disregards and undermines training that an owner is doing with their dog. In some cases, it can be life threatening for the owner, especially when a service dog is involved.<br \/>\nSo many of us LOVE dogs to such a point that we cannot control ourselves and we must pet and fawn over any dog we see. We lose self-control, and think only of our own desires, not the need or work another is doing with their dog. Frankly, this is disrespectful to both the other person AND the dog providing no regard for the other person. These are hard words for me to say, but, it is the truth.<br \/>\nWhen someone is working a service dog, whether the dog is in training or operational, taking the dog\u2019s attention away from the handler could be life threatening to the handler. Unless the handler\/owner gives you permission, it can literally be against the law. Anyone that knowingly interferes with the work of a service dog is in violation of Idaho Statute, which is prosecutable because of the danger to the disabled handler.<br \/>\nWhen someone is working hard to train a puppy to not jump, and you invite the jump with the reward of petting, you are setting the training backward enormously. Remember, that same dog might grow up to be 95 pounds and may still jump on you as an adult dog knocking you or someone else over causing injury. It\u2019s not funny, nor is it fair to anyone, including the dog. Giving a dog mixed a signal is so confusing and anxiety producing for the dog. When you violate an owner\u2019s direction, you are only serving to make things more difficult for everyone, including the dog you may love so passionately.<br \/>\nRespect is at the heart of the matter. Simple respect for the owner\u2019s direction and wishes can go such a long way to everyone\u2019s happiness! Respect is so important in today\u2019s world. Let\u2019s share the respect!<br \/>\nCaption: At breakfast last Sunday, someone with a supposed service dog stopped to let her dog sniff Steel, my diabetic alert dog in training. Even though the owner of the other dog did not pet Steel, letting her dog stop to sniff and \u201csocialize\u201d another working dog was simply disrespectful and illegal! An Undoer.<\/p>\n<p><em>Fran Jewell is a dog behavior consultant, NADOI-certified instructor and vice president.\u00a0She owns Positive Puppy Dog Training\u00a0LLC and can be reached at (208) 721-7221.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Fran Jewell Do you love to touch and pet every dog you see? Does it make your heart smile when a puppy jumps up on you to say, \u201cHello\u201d with a sweet wagging tail and a goofy face! Are you someone that will say, \u201cOh, I don\u2019t mind if she jumps on me!\u201d then [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":479,"featured_media":22665,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","_pvb_checkbox_block_on_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,19],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-22664","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-commentary","8":"category-no-bones-about-it"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/479"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22664"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22666,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22664\/revisions\/22666"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}