[nagdu] Stopping at upcurbs

[Danielle Sykora]

If it is an actual upcurb (one that you need to step up for), my dog
will pause with his front paws on the curb and start moving again as
soon as I have one foot on the curb. It's similar with upcurbs. We
stop just barely long enough for me to say "good dog forward". If it
is a curb he has trouble finding for some reason, we will take a step,
or maybe a few, onto the sidewalk before I praise more thoroughly or
treat. I always expect him to stop at downcurbs and steps.

Danielle and Thai
On 12/11/14, Marsha Drenth via nagdu <nagdu at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> Tracy,
> all my dogs have too eventually dropped the practice. Now my current dog
> will, pause for me to find the curb, if its one that I need to step up on,
> as I have fallen, theinking that there was no curb. I like the ramp curbs,
> my blanace likes them better too. I do always make my dogs, stop at the down
> curb. Again, I have fallen if and when they have tried to blow them. It is
> also important for me as a deafblind person, to use the curbs, because then
> I can orientate my self on where I am, as I use the tactual parts of my
> route to let me know where I am. I get very familiar and pay attention to
> cracks in the sidewalk, curbs, poles, and other things that will tell me I
> am going in the direction.
>
>
> Marsha drenth
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>> On Dec 11, 2014, at 11:44 AM, Tracy Carcione via nagdu <nagdu at nfbnet.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>> I think stopping at upcurbs is a matter of personal preference.  I agree a
>> dog should, at first, but mine drop it pretty fast.  I want to get out of
>> the street.  I once was hit when I tried to correct my dog for running an
>> upcurb.  The driver figured I was out of the street and started to pull
>> out, but I had stopped to correct.  Luckily, the idiot wasn't moving very
>> fast. I decided then I wasn't going to correct for running an upcurb.
>> Pretty soon, all I get is a pause and go.  I can see it wouldn't work for
>> everyone, but it works for me, and other people I know in the big bad
>> city.
>> Tracy
>>
>>
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