[nagdu] Steps

[d m gina]

I am sorry that the city is so bad. I just walk as if I know what I am 
doing even if I don't.
Then I am not bothered because of the dog.
Just some thoughts.
Jim loves to get out with me, now that we both have the Breeze.
I love to see him getting out with me.

Original message:
> 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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