[nagdu] Steps

[Tamara Smith-Kinney]

I'm glad somebody else does that!  /lol/  It seems like every time someone
asks a question about something, I suddenly find I need to run out to do a
refresher course because I've gotten sloppy, so my dog has gotten sloppy.
Sigh.  Too much time spent doing the same old same old, I guess, and running
around with the roomies instead of adventuring off on our own.

Well!  Mitzi's paw is all better, and she's rearing for adventure.  I need
to get her out for some rambunctious run play, then find a place to go where
we can practice being a guide dog team.  I was going to suck it up and buy a
bus pass to go wandering downtown Portland a couple of times a week, since I
love the city.  But I think DD is right in that the ever-growing population
of increasingly angry, desperate people living on the streets there makes
the city too dangerous for me and my sweet precious to go just to walk
around.  Sigh.  Don't tell him I said he was right, though. /lol/  So I
guess I need to scope out a nice suburban mall where we can do some indoor
and outdoor work along with traveling on the bus.  Otherwise, we're going to
be useless!

Tami Smith-Kinney

-----Original Message-----
From: nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
Of Julie J
Sent: Monday, November 15, 2010 9:53 AM
To: NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users
Subject: Re: [nagdu] Steps

I did a lot of work on steps and curbs this past weekend.  I needed to 
retrain the approach to up curbs because I have been sloppy and let the 
pause get shorter and shorter until it no longer existed. He's back to feet 
up on the bottom step or curb!

And I also worked on having him cross over at the top of a set of stairs 
consisting of anything more than one.  this still needs work.  Sometimes 
he's crossing over when there's only one step and sometimes he's just 
stopping without the cross over.  I'd say he's somewhere in the range of 75%

accurate though.

I'm glad this topic was brought up because it's something I've been thinking

about and meaning to work on.

Julie



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