[nabs-l] Guide Dog or Cane? Which do u recommend and why?

[Joshua Lester]

Wow!
Tyler!
Say it ain't so!
We actually agree on something for once!
LOL!
Blessings, Joshua
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From: nabs-l [nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] on behalf of Littlefield, Tyler [tyler at tysdomain.com]
Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2013 8:52 PM
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Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Guide Dog or Cane? Which do u recommend and why?

How does one who is a good cane traveler fall into a drainage hole? Your
cane would undoubtedly catch that, would it not?
I've bumped into stuff when I used a cane (and I still do every so often
with a guide), so it's not exactly a full-proof solution to not falling
in stuff you shouldn't have fallen in if you were a good cane traveler
to begin with.
On 10/31/2013 9:42 PM, Jeff Crouch wrote:
> Hi Haley,
> I've ben a guide dog user for just over 2 months, and i'm 16 and this
> is my first guide dog ever. and I love having a guide dog. For me,
> having a guide dog has made my traveling a lot more easier. With out
> having to worry about weather i'm going to fall in to some dranage
> hole in the side walk which has happened to some one I personaly new,
> but with a guide dog I just love having that fluid walking, I can say
> when I was a cane user, I was the best cane user my O&M teacher had,
> and that is what he told me one day. I love my dog, and like someone
> else minchened, don't let people pressure you in to getting one, and
> if you deside to get one, don't let people pressure you in to going
> some where over some other place. Personal story, I had a person who
> was trying to pressure me in to going to guide dog foundation in New
> York, but I looked in to a guide dog school in ohio called Pilot dogs,
> and I loved it there. Now i'm not going to tell you what I love about
> it there, because I don't want to influence you to go there or not to
> go there, you need to deside that if you even want to get one. Like
> the famious phrase  says, "Don't judge a book by its cover."
> translated to this topic, don't judge a guide dog school by just what
> is said around in the blind community, call and talk to the staff, and
> ask the questions that you want to ask, and get to know the staff at
> the different schools.
>
> Feel free to email me off list for anything else.
> I hope I've helped.
>
>
>
> On 10/31/13, haley sumner <haleysumner at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>> Hello fellow Nabsters,
>> I am in the process of deciding whether or not to get a guide dog in about a
>> year and a half, right before I go to college, and am still unsure whether i
>> should go through with this or just stick with the cane. What do you all
>> recommend? Which do you feel is better travel-wise, social-wise, etc. I am
>> looking forward to hearing about your experiences and preferences.
>> Thanks,
>> Haley Sumner
>>
>>
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