[nagdu] always taking the dog was guide dogs

[The Pawpower Pack]

Lyn,

Yes, my dog does hearing dog tasks-- alerts to smoke alarms; to my  
name being called; to the beeping of large trucks backing up.  I never  
know when I'll need any of these things and I feel much safer when  
she's with me.  If I went sighted guide, and if that guide left me for  
a moment or two, that is when something is likely to happen, and it has.
I also have a chronic inner ear disease which causes a great deal of  
vertigo sometimes to the degree that I cannot walk without support.   
There is also the issue of lack of proprioception while undergoing a  
vertigo attack, so I am going left when I think I'm turning right.  In  
these cases my dog has to over-ride my cues and my body language and  
get me where I need to be.  In these cases she is totally in charge  
because although I may know how to get there, I can't make my body do  
what it needs and I basically hang on to the dog and let her figure it  
out.  I'm glad she's a take charge kind of girl.

Rox and the Kitchen Bitches
Bristol (retired), Mill'E SD. and Laveau Guide Dog, CGC.
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sarcasm, only to have it abused by amateurs." -- Christopher Moore
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