(VICT) Re: escallator travel

Sandy,

Some of the guide dog schools do teach techniques for doing escallators, 
including GDB which is my school. It is really quite an amazing skill, but 
you really do have to be careful with it. The fur which grows between the 
pads must be trimmed so it does not run the risk of becoming caught in the 
mechanism of the moving steps.

We were also told that if this was not something we could use regularly, 
that we should not do it at all because the dogs need to be doing the skill 
regularly in order to remember how to do it carefully. Here, where I live, 
it really is not a necessity, though when I lived in the Bay Area and needed 
to use BART, it would have saved us many many problems. I truly believe 
escallators should not be built without accompanying stairs. Stairs were 
available, but often at another entrance to the under-ground train system 
which would put you off at an incorrect location at your destination. I 
always hated BART for that reason. It was definitely not that easy to use in 
my opinion. Obviously, people do manage, but I didn't enjoy it.

Dianne and Primrose
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Sent: Sunday, July 22, 2007 3:20 PM
Subject: (VICT) Re: escallator travel


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> In a message dated 7/22/2007 10:41:32 A.M. Mountain Daylight Time,
> khevener@xxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
> I am  wondering if you take your guide or service dog on
> escallators.
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>
> I have but only under duress.. I have heard too many horror stories..
> although I think I heard someone metioning using boots on the paws to 
> protect  them
> on the escalators? Anyone hear anything about this?
>
> Sandy  Foushee
> Infinite Paws-Abilities Training and Service Dogs
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