[NAGDU] How do you stay mobile with a guide dog?

[joshknnd1982 at gmail.com]

After thinking about things a bit more, I'm also afraid if I get a dog, since it would live in the house with me, it may not motivate me as much to get outside and spend as much time outside with it, working a guide dog. Now compared to me getting or probably training my own guide horse, the guide horse would live outside, making me have to go outside more and spend much more time outdoors to begin with. And since I'm in PA, that would include shoveling or snow-blowing more snow in the winter so I would have a path to its shed at the top of my back yard. 



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Having a guide dog definitely motivates me to get out and walk when I otherwise might not.  
I also attend to my own exercise needs, apart from working my dog.  

Susan & Topher


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Subject: [NAGDU] How do you stay mobile with a guide dog?

Hi all,
As a prospective guide dog user, I’m curious how you all stay mobile with a guide dog. Do you go on hikes together? Do you go on city walks? Do you find that your daily walks have helped you go out more?
I’m curious about this because I live in the Netherlands where it’s dark and cold in the morning for like 8 months of the year, haha. I think that the accountability of caring for a guide dog will also make it a no brainer to get some sunlight (when it exists) every day. I wonder if this has actually been your experience, and what you all found on the other side of having a guide dog and going out more.
Thanks a lot,
Parham
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