[nagdu] Noise at the corner

Julie McGinnity kaybaycar at gmail.com
Tue Jun 24 14:26:45 UTC 2014


I think that depends on the dog.  Most dogs will just watch carefully
if they notice a car coming in the distance.  Some won't even mind if
you tell them to go when there is a car several feet in front of you.
It depends on how traffic sensitive your dog is and how stubbern too.
:)

I have the same problem.  And then in the summer you have lawn mowing
and other yard machinery.  That gets me all the time.  Usually, I wait
or ask someone to tell me when it's safe to cross.  Sometimes if I
think it's quiet, I go and trust my dog.  There's nothing like being
late to class, not because you're actually running late, but because
you've been waiting ato cross a street forever due to construction
noise.

On 6/24/14, Tracy Carcione via nagdu <nagdu at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> Yeah, sometimes I can't tell those things either.  Distance I'm pretty
> good at; speed not so much.  So I wait, and it makes my husband crazy.
> But sometimes idiots come flying down the quiet streets near my home as if
> they were on the highway.  "Yo, this neighborhood is full of kids and
> dogs!  Be careful!"
> Also, I once heard a lecture, at a NAGDU meeting actually, about
> untraining your dog's traffic skills by telling him to go when a car is
> coming.  I may assume the driver will stop for the stoplight, but my dog
> doesn't know any such thing.  Though it's hard to do in practice,
> especially in the City, where, if I wait for everyone to stop, I may not
> have time to get across. Let's just ban those darned cars.
> Tracy
>
>> Tracy,
>>
>> I've always been like that.   I also have difficulty judging distance of
>> cars.  there are some streets I have to cross where there is no light and
>> not a ton of traffic.  I find myself standing there for what seems like
>> forever because I can hear cars, but I can't tell how far away they are
>> to
>> know if I have enough time to cross.  when I'm with my teen age son, I'll
>> be
>> waiting and he'll tell me that car is over a block away, I think you can
>> make it.
>>
>> I do exactly as you do, wait.  If I can I'll go around by crossing the
>> street or taking a different route, but that isn't always possible or
>> practical.
>>
>> Julie
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Tracy Carcione via nagdu
>> Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2014 8:31 AM
>> To: nagdu at nfbnet.org
>> Subject: [nagdu] Noise at the corner
>>
>> I am having more trouble these days hearing traffic when there are loud
>> noises around, like an idling truck, a food truck generator, or a bus
>> zooming off down the street.  I don't know if it's my hearing, or just
>> that cars are quieter, but there are times I have to wait out a light
>> change because I just can't tell what's happening.  And, if the noise
>> isn't going away, I have to take my best guess or wait until someone
>> happens along who hears me asking for help.  If there was a Miracle Ear
>> that damped down loud noises and amped up quiet ones, I'd get it.
>> Surely I can't be the only person with this problem. What do other people
>> do?
>> Tracy
>>
>>
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Julie McG
National Association of Guide dog Users board member,  National
Federation of the Blind performing arts division secretary,
Missouri Association of Guide dog Users President,
and Guiding Eyes for the Blind graduate 2008
"For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that
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