[nagdu] was anticipating; now follow

[The Pawpower Pack]

Laveau hates to follow.  She'll do it now that she's been doing the  
guide dog thing for nearly two years but she will never like it.  This  
was such a strange concept to me as my dogs before had been goldens  
who would follow anyone!  This was by far, the hardest skill for me to  
teach.  We keep in practice regularly because I can't hear the person  
I'm following so it's important.  I hate going sighted guide so it was  
something she had to learn and eventually she did.  She'd much rather  
be guiding out front, though.

Laveau does also anticipate turns and destinations and I really do  
encourage this.  Because I'm deaf, I don't have all of the auditory  
environmental cues that most other blind people have so I do rely on  
my dog to tell me about things around me.  She will move on if I tell  
her not today.

Rox and the Herbal HenchHounds
Bristol (retired), Mill'E SD. and Laveau Guide Dog, CGC.
"It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point  
out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half- 
wit, and the emperor remains an emperor."-- Neil Gaiman
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