[nagdu] Dog carrying

[Julie McGinnity]

Wow!  I have never heard of that either.  I would think that carrying
the dog by the back strap would hurt.  Brie hates being carried, but
she will tolerate it.  Thankfully, I don't have much of a problem
carrying her.  She is about half my weight, and as long as I can use
both arms, it's not a problem.  Did schools really teach carrying by
the back strap?  I can't imagine that would be easy.  You could only
really use one hand.  It's good to know I can carry her in case I ever
need to for some reason I don't want to think about, but I couldn't
imagine lifting her up by the harness.

On 1/6/11, solsticesinger <solsticesinger at gmail.com> wrote:
> Carrying the dog by the backstrap? I can't imagine such a thing. My dog
> weighs almost as much as I do. (Grin)
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> From: "Cindy Ray" <cindyray at gmail.com>
> To: "NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users"
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> Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2011 9:56 AM
> Subject: Re: [nagdu] Dog carrying
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>> Do you remember when for a time TSE taught you to carry the dog by the
>> back strap onto the escalator?
>> I think I learned that with Spencer, but I'm not sure. Well, I could
>> barely lift that dog up to do it; same thing as was true with the asphalt;
>>
>> I worked with Lukas at convention with him. He said, "You don't need to do
>>
>> that with him. He has no problem with the escalator." Glad we have the
>> escalator training, too. Chuck once carried his dog on one because the
>> down stairs in the store were closed for some weird reason. He said he did
>>
>> it all the time. I was amazed and asked him about it after we got off. He
>> said he had never done it before.
>>
>> OK, done with that. <Grin>
>> On Jan 6, 2011, at 8:47 AM, Tracy Carcione wrote:
>>
>>> Yep, I try not to carry the dog anymore, if I can help it.
>>> Once, in the days before most schools taught escalators, I carried my
>>> 75-pound shepherd up a very long escalator.  Now, I can't imagine doing
>>> such a thing.  We also have a picture a friend took of me and my husband
>>> carrying Amba up an escalator.  She was reclining in our arms, like
>>> Cleopatra being borne along by her slaves.
>>> Thank goodness for escalator training!
>>>
>>> Tracy
>>>> Are you sure you aren't just misunderstanding the calling? <Giggle> Wow,
>>>> how big is the grating anyway? I would actually think you would want to
>>>> be
>>>> careful about carrying your dog over it because of possible back injury.
>>>>
>>>> Once I carried Spencer across hot asphalt because one of the
>>>> construction
>>>> workers offered to do it, and I said to myself, "Self, never relinquish
>>>> the dog to anyone." I picked him up by the back strap and carried him
>>>> over
>>>> best I could. Needless to say, I went home by another country.
>>>>
>>>
>>>
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Julie McG
 Lindbergh High School class of 2009, participating member in Opera
Theater's Artist in Training Program, and proud graduate of Guiding
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