[nagdu] walking in sidewalkless areas

[Tami Jarvis]

Sarah,

We do sidewalkless areas sometimes. I've trained Mitzi for hiking, but 
that's different somehow than doing routes to in-town places without 
sidewalks.

She slows down some, too, depending on what the ground is like and 
apparently how safe she thinks the route is. If it's a nice, wide grassy 
area without a lot of humps in the ground or obstacles, for instance, 
she moves right along. But if things are trickier, then she has to slow 
down and watch my feet and work harder to find good ways through uneven 
ground or past obstacles or overhangs. On some of these types of routes, 
she will speed up as they become more familiar so that we've learned to 
walk them at speed. There have been a couple that just were no good. We 
tried to avoid them, but took them a few times. We both ended up pretty 
tired and cranky.

Around here, most of our routes do have sidewalks. But you've reminded 
me that I should get out on some alternate routes to practice them since 
they don't have sidewalks.

Good luck!

Tami

On 04/30/2013 11:20 AM, Sarah wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I was wondering if ayever has worked their dogs in sidewalkless areas.
> I have to because that's where I live, but my guide hates working
> sidewalkless.  He walks very slow and bored-like.  I'm just wondering if
> anyone has ever walked sidewalkless teas with their guide dogs and how
> it was.
>
> Sarah and Wizard
>
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