[sasi] Dog Guides

[Becky Frankeberger]

Rick I am a week behind in reading as we were out of town.  If the street is
on my right and the curb cut would take me diagonal  if I followed the curb.
My right foot would be flat, while the left foot would keep my orientation
still on the ramp of the curb cut, which means my dog is kind of on the step
of the curb on my left side.  I had to qualify this for Rick as he knows I
work my dog on the right, but changed it for him with the dog on the left
side.  You will most likely find the dog is indeed lined up just fine, if
not that left foot on the curb will show you.  Just gently adjust the
dogslightly left, and point straight.  But that foot still on the ramp will
tell you a lot about orienting yourself. Give this a try. Now if the entire
curb is rounded, we will have to think about another idea, hugs.

Warm hugs,

For those of you who are new, I am Becky from Washington State with proud
Seeing Eye golden retriever Jake.

Becky and TSE dog Jake     
Butterfly Knits
b.butterfly at comcast.net


-----Original Message-----
From: sasi-bounces at acb.org [mailto:sasi-bounces at acb.org] On Behalf Of Rick
Roderick
Sent: Friday, March 18, 2011 10:13 AM
To: sasi, (sight and sound impaired) discussion list
Subject: Re: [sasi] Dog Guides

I really feel a frustration right now.  I have been told that I need a dog 
guide more because of my worsening hearing.  Yet, that is also the reason 
that it is harder for me to use one.

I don't have the directional hearing that I once had.  I have a more 
difficult time hearing distance from traffic.  With my cochlear implant, I 
sometimes hear too well in some ways and not well enough in others.  By too 
well, I mean that hearing the distance of traffic from me can be a real 
problem, and the main street near here gets quite busy.

By not well enough, I still have a lot of trouble with environmaneal noise. 
Traffic noise can obscure people talking to me.

Quattro has a veering problem, and I have been working with the school and 
volunteers to get things straightened out.  We have several curbcuts which 
were poorly designed.  If I followed them, the would take me diagonally 
accross the intersections.  This would be a very dangerous thing.

Have any of you had these problems, and how did you overcvome them? 

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