[NAGDU] Staying together

Fri Sep 2 12:43:20 UTC 2016

I kind of agree with Rebecca on this. Follow is fine, except when you're in a big, noisy place that you can't really track who you're meant to follow and thus, don't know if your dog really is or not. If I'm with a sighted friend, I will often walk sighted guide and heel my dog because, first, it's easier to stay with the person that way (and they're not spending most of the time trying to keep track of us/directing us), and second, it's a whole lot more companionable and much easier to keep a conversation going when you're not always having to manage your dog. Different strokes, I suppose. 

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> On Sep 2, 2016, at 8:20 AM, Star Gazer via NAGDU <nagdu at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> 			Interesting how we are all different. I truly
> *hated* the follow command. Sighted guide didn't and doesn't bother me a
> bit. 
> 
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> From: NAGDU [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Rachel Grider via
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> Subject: Re: [NAGDU] Staying together
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> Since he is your husband, linking arms or holding hands would be totally
> acceptible. Someone else, maybe not, but there is always sighted guide. I
> personally don't like cited guide because I don't like feeling that I am not
> in control of where I am going, but I think in this case where it is only
> being used for two blind people to stay together, it may be a good solution.
> I will link arms with my  sighted mother sometimes when we are in a crowded
> area just to stay together, but she is the only person I will do that with
> because she is my mother.
> 
> Another thought: could you go behind your husband and give your dog a follow
> command? If someone is showing me where to go, like for example if I am in a
> store and someone from customer service is helping me find things, I can go
> behind the person with my dog and tell her to follow. The same thing if I am
> in a large group of people walking somewhere and there are people in front
> of me in my group. I don't like doing that often, But it works in some
> cases.
> 
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>> On Sep 1, 2016, at 06:29, Jody Ianuzzi via NAGDU <nagdu at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>> 
>> Hello Tracy,
>> 
>> Why don't you walk cited guide. Or you could  walk arm in arm.  That would
> be acceptable even if you both could see.
>> 
>> JODY
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>>> On Sep 1, 2016, at 8:22 AM, Tracy Carcione via NAGDU <nagdu at nfbnet.org>
> wrote:
>>> 
>>> My husband Jerry uses a cane, and I of course use a guide dog.  My 
>>> husband has lost a lot of vision, and we are having trouble staying 
>>> together when passing through big, open spaces, like fancy hotel 
>>> lobbies or the bus terminal.  Either Krokus gets into a groove and 
>>> Jerry can't keep up, or Krokus starts screwing around and Jerry goes 
>>> off ahead.  Sometimes I grab Jerry's hand and pull him along, or we start
> calling loudly to each other.
>>> Neither one feels very dignified.  
>>> 
>>> Do people have methods that work to keep a cane user and a dog user 
>>> in contact?  I've heard some people wear a bell, but does that really 
>>> work, in an open, noisy environment?
>>> 
>>> I'd like to figure out something that works, and doesn't make us both 
>>> feel ridiculous.
>>> 
>>> Tracy
>>> 
>>> 
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