[nagdu] dog guides and snow

[lindagwizdak at peoplepc.com]

Hi Lora,
I guess your dog is doing OK in the snow as long as you are the dog keeps 
you safe when you have to travel in the road.  I remember, when I lived in 
Boston, doing that with a white cane and it was snowing bad when I was 
coming home from work.  All of a sudden, a hand grabbed me and brought me to 
safety.  Unbeknownst to me, I was walking up the middle of the road!!  Thank 
god I wasn't hit by a car!  The blownig snow and wind disoriented me.

I haven't travelled with a guide dog in the snow for almost 21 years now - 
I'll find out about it when I move to Vermont later this year!

Linda and Landon
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lora and Myrtle" <blindhistory at gmail.com>
To: <guidedog-friends at yahoogroups.com>; "NAGDU Mailing List,the National 
Association of Guide Dog Users" <nagdu at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 2:44 PM
Subject: [nagdu] dog guides and snow


> What in the world are guide dogs supposed to do in the snow? My dog 
> follows
> a fence if she can and if she can't she takes me out into the middle of 
> the
> road where is has been plowed and follow the snow bank. If there is a
> sidewalk that she can see she follows it. My dog really doesn't know how 
> to
> treat snow and neither do I. When I go back to school I can't have her in
> the middle of the road trying to follow the snowbank shoulder that is out
> far into the road. Is my dog doing the right thing?
>
> -- 
> Lora and Leader Dog Myrtle
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