[nagdu] Attaching the Cane to the Harness

Sat Jul 16 00:28:02 UTC 2011

I tried a sign for a while once. My experience was that people would still pet my dog, sometimes while reading the sign. So I gave it up as not much more effective, if any more effective, than not having one. 
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Buddy Brannan, KB5ELV - Erie, PA
Phone: (814) 860-3194 or 888-75-BUDDY

On Jul 15, 2011, at 7:20 PM, Steven Johnson wrote:

> And, make sure it says, do not pet, feed or talk to me in a color that one
> could see in the middle of the night...yeh, fluorescent.  
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
> Of Tina Thomas
> Sent: Friday, July 15, 2011 10:18 AM
> To: 'NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users'
> Subject: Re: [nagdu] Attaching the Cane to the Harness
> 
> I like the idea of  us selling a harness pouch. We could possibly design it
> so that there would be a space to attach a telescopic cane to the pouch. 
> Tina 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
> Of Marion Gwizdala
> Sent: Friday, July 15, 2011 5:07 AM
> To: NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users
> Subject: [nagdu] Attaching the Cane to the Harness
> 
> Gary,
>    I completely understand about not using your hands to gain information 
> in a public bathroom! I don't even let my dog get too close to the urinals 
> and, unless it is a very urgent situation, never use anything else! In fact,
> 
> if you ever notice that paper towel behind the door, I dropped it there so I
> 
> didn't need to touch the handle. Not everyone washes their hands in there, 
> don't ya know!
>    Frankly, I have gotten out of the habit of carrying my white cane with 
> me since I broke my telescopic one. It's a bit challenging to tote a 69" 
> length of carbon fiber around! Now I have one of the new NFB carbon fiber 
> telescopic canes in its nifty little carrying case and I will be able to 
> return to it.
>    Since it has a carrying case, I am wondering if I could run a couple of 
> zip ties through it at the seams and attach it to the handle of the harness.
> 
> I'm going to check it out! I wonder if NFB sells the carrying cases 
> separately!
>    NAGDU has entertained the possibility of selling harness pouches as a 
> fund raiser, so we will keep the idea of toting the cane in mind while 
> deciding upon such a thing in the future.
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "GARY STEEVES" <rainshadowmusic at shaw.ca>
> To: "NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users" 
> <nagdu at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2011 4:35 PM
> Subject: [nagdu] carrying white cane
> 
> 
>> Hello:
>> 
>> This is slightly related to  the email I'm responding to. :) I like to 
>> have a cane with me even when I have Bogart for several reasons. The most 
>> notable I've come across is having to use public washrooms. Really need a 
>> cane to find things rather than ones hands or feet.
>> 
>> Has anyone rigged up a way of carrying a cane on the harness? I was 
>> thinking of getting a longish ID cane so it would be light and thin but 
>> would serve in case of emergency. I was hoping I could fit it in his 
>> harness pouch but I think even my short ID cane is too long. Has anyone 
>> thought up something ingenious that they would like to share?
>> 
>> Thanks
>> Gary
>> 
>> 
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Tami Kinney <tamara.8024 at comcast.net>
>> Date: Thursday, July 14, 2011 11:06 am
>> Subject: Re: [nagdu] attachment or anxiety separation
>> To: nagdu at nfbnet.org
>> 
>>> Bibi,
>>> 
>>> Wow. You sure have beeen through a lot recently. That alone, or
>>> so it
>>> seems to me, would make anyone more prone to anxiety in general. As
>>> would being without a white cane! I did once go for a time
>>> without a
>>> white cane after I lost my very first one somehow, so now I have a
>>> zillion canes and need to get to ordering a spare straight cane,
>>> as well
>>> as a new pocket cane, whether it's a telescoping nfb cane or a light
>>> foldup ambutech. /lol/ I trust my guide now and use her
>>> exclusively for
>>> nearly everything, but I don't want to get stuck without a dog
>>> or cane
>>> ever again! /lol/
>>> 
>>> I haven't yet had to find out how I will cope with my guide's
>>> retirement, and I plan not to for another 5 or 6 years at the very
>>> least. Still... I feel very sad and get a twinge of separation anxiety
>>> just thinking about it. Heck, I get separation anxiety just
>>> leaving her
>>> at the groomers. Sad, but true. /smile/
>>> 
>>> Hope your new cane arrives soon, and good on Dale for being your
>>> eyes in
>>> the meantime. My then-husband was, well, useless and also made a big
>>> deal about expressing the extent to which he just didn't know
>>> what my
>>> problem was and that I should just not go to work until a new cane
>>> arrived, but it was no hurry, there was some reason he was interfering
>>> with my attempts to acquire a new one, I can't even remember
>>> what it
>>> was. Thus, he is now the ex-husband. Argh! I did manage to get
>>> my hands
>>> on a support cane, which was better than nothing but not at all
>>> the same
>>> and it was too short, so it actually made life more difficult,
>>> especially since there was snow on the ground at the time, all nicely
>>> packed down even on the sidewalks and all icy and limpy, so... Well,
>>> having friends with brains around helped many times but I am
>>> glad you
>>> also have a cooperative , even helpful partner to assit in
>>> covering the
>>> gap. /smile/
>>> 
>>> Best to you both, and to Odie as well.
>>> 
>>> Tami
>>> 
>>> On Tue, 2011-07-12 at 07:55 -0600, Criminal Justice Major
>>> Extraordinairewrote:
>>>> Hi, all,
>>>> Have any of you felt that big attachment toward your retired
>>> guide dog and
>>>> experienced anxiety separation?
>>>> It seems like I've been experiencing that lately and was
>>> hoping I wouldn't
>>>> be the only one.
>>>> I've found myself feeling all of that, especially when Odie is
>>> left at home.
>>>> On Saturday, Dale and I went to see a Cinderrella play live
>>> that my step
>>>> sister Sarah was in.
>>>> It was held in the theater inside the King Center on Auraria
>>> campus and
>>>> total amount of people was probably four hundred.
>>>> There was no way that Odie was probably going to handle it, so
>>> the hard
>>>> decision was to leave him at home for me at least.
>>>> While Dale and I were out with family, that's when it all hit me.
>>>> Yesterday was a different story however.
>>>> Odie was in his medical alert service dog vest walking with my
>>> husband.> I was using my support cane and walking ahead of the
>>> two men slowly and
>>>> carefully.
>>>> Odie began to move faster upon trying to bolt out in front of me.
>>>> I think he still felt that he needed to be my eyes and was
>>> concerned that I
>>>> was going to get hurt.
>>>> I'm in the process of getting a new fold up white cane through
>>> Ambutech.> unfortunately I had lost my current one, especially
>>> after the convulsive
>>>> grandmal seizures I dealt with two months in a row.
>>>> Thankfully, my husband told me he'd happily be my eyes until I
>>> can get my
>>>> replacement folding cane and be matched with a successor partner.
>>>> Bibi
>>>> 
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