[nagdu] Things I wanted to discuss, but just didn't have time to

[Julie J.]

I don't understand this.  Can you explain?  What do you mean that 90% of the 
traffic will be on the left?

Julie

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From: "Garry and Joy Relton" <relton30857 at cox.net>
To: "'NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users'" 
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> People work the dog on the left because 90% of the traffic you will cross
> will be on your left.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
> Of Tamara Smith-Kinney
> Sent: Monday, March 09, 2009 12:32 AM
> To: 'NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users'
> Subject: Re: [nagdu] Things I wanted to discuss, but just didn't have time
> to
>
>
> Hmm...
>
> This is interesting.  Being left-handed, I figured if everyone else works
> their dog on the left, leaving their dominant right hand free, I would 
> train
> my dog to work on the right, leaving my dominant left hand free.  Then
> someone recently told me she had heard the reason guide dogs worked on the
> left was so the handler would not have to drop the harness handle to shake
> hands.  Oh!  I wonder if that's it or if people work the dog on the left 
> for
> the same reasons they shake hands with the right...  That just works best
> for a predominantly right-handed population.  /smile/
>
> Is tracking, the way you guys mean it, something to do with follow?  Or 
> with
> patterning?  I haven't heard the word used in that context before.  Mitzi
> knows follow, but I've realized lately she prefers to pattern, and will
> sometimes be patterning when I think she's following...  Or is it the 
> other
> way around?  /smile/
>
> Living beyond the reliable sidewalk zone, I often wish I had trained her 
> to
> work on my left, since when we're on the side of the road facing traffic,
> she's the one closest to it.  Scares me all to pieces.  She does know to
> stay to the side of the road and not wander across the white line (when
> there's so much as that between us and traffic).  I don't necessarily 
> trust
> the oncoming drivers to do so well.  Then again, there's a long stretch
> where we have to walk with traffic coming up behind us as we walk in the
> pedestrian lane, which puts me on the traffic side with a whole lot of
> tension between my shoulder blades.  It would probably be worse if she 
> were
> on that side going that way....  I'm used to it now and don't get all
> weirded out just walking up to the store, but every now and then I still
> think about what we're doing and give myself the hopeless willies!
>
> Tami Smith-Kinney
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
> Of Ron Davidson
> Sent: Sunday, March 08, 2009 10:31 AM
> To: NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users
> Subject: Re: [nagdu] Things I wanted to discuss, but just didn't have time
> to
>
> I never heard of a guide working on the right but I guess it is necessary 
> it
>
> the person don't have a good working left arm. Just like they train them 
> to
> work with wheel chairs. But I do feel the tracking on the left is taught 
> not
>
> a natural thing where in the ordinary dogs life do you see them tracking 
> or
> following specifically on the left.
>
>
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