[nagdu] From Cane To Dog

[Cindy Ray]

For me I had to grit my teeth and hope he really would stop. I think when you aren’t sure of something, you do have to stick out your foot to check where you are. I think you can actually take a folding cane with you for specific circumstances to check things out, but you don’t want to go ahead of your dog to find things, or push or pull it with the harness where you think you are going. It has been a long time now, 25 years, since I got my first dog, and I had used a cane for 28 years before that. Now I feel pretty interchangeable, but sometimes I still have a little trouble with that trust.

Cindy
Cindyray at gmail.com

On Aug 24, 2014, at 9:29 PM, Elise Berkley via nagdu <nagdu at nfbnet.org> wrote:

> Hello, all!  I have just been approved with Guide Dogs For The Blind in San
> Rafael for my first dog.  It will be some time before I get a match and I am
> so excited.  But, I am also scared.  I have been using constant contact with
> my cane for about 15 years now.  I cannot fathom walking with my dog and not
> having contact with anything but the harness and my dog.  How did you all
> transpose from using a cane with contact to using your dogs with no contact
> but your dogs?  Thanks for your advice and tips!  
> 
> 
> 
> Elise, Still Using My Cane
> 
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