[nagdu] re sighted guides

[AnnaLisa Anderson]

Hi Wayne.

I do things very similarly in relation to sighted, or human, guides as you
do.  The only problem is when the human guide wants to take a slightly
different path than the dog guide does.  That's usually when I drop the
harness because it's easier that way than trying to explain to the human why
you suddenly let go of them.  Once in a while though the dog's judgment is
actually better.  Like the other day I was sort of hanging on to this lady's
bag that I was walking with so I could keep  track of where she was on a
busy noisy street corner.  We were crossing both ways, and the lady sort of
cut off the corner, and Sunny wanted to do the usual and go up on the curb
first.  I didn't really have time to say anything because the lady I was
with was starting to cross the other way, so I sort of went with her and
told Sunny to go along with it, this once. <smile>  Don't worry, that is the
exception to the rule, Sunny still knows how to properly do street
crossings.

AnnaLisa and Sundance