[nagdu] The Differences in Dogs and Canes

Cindy Ray cindyray at gmail.com
Sun Jun 23 20:39:48 UTC 2013


OK, yeah, but there are things that a dog doesn't detech that a cane does, especially if said dog is distracted. And sometimes they will come to stairs and not stop; they shouldn't, and you can correct the behavior, but you could get hurt. Stuff happens, and it does even if you are sighted. 

CL

On Jun 23, 2013, at 2:08 PM, "Nicole Torcolini" <ntorcolini at wavecable.com> wrote:

> Okay, yes, I know that this one has gone round and round before, but I had
> something happen today that made me just have to bring it up one more time.
> There is the way of thinking that says that the good cane user should be
> able to travel as quickly and as safely with a cane as with a dog. However,
> unless you wear a full body shield, I just don't think that that is true.
> For reasons that I will not discuss here, I was out walking today with my
> cane rather than Lexia. I was traversing a route that I have taken numerous
> times with Lexia. Lexia usually stays a tiny bit from the edge of the side
> walk. However, as I was using my cane rather than Lexia, I was trailing the
> edge. There is a staircase that comes down from a building that has a
> railing that sticks out farther than the bottom step. With Lexia, this had
> never before posed a problem as she had cleared it as an obstacle. However,
> I had no way of detecting it without her; it was at hip level. As a result,
> I ran right into it. I was not hurt or anything, but it just goes to show
> that there are those things that a guide dog, at least a well trained one,
> usually detects that a cane cannot.
> 
> Nicole
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