I always have a folding cane in my book bag or my office organizer. As there are times that I have noticed when a cane comes in handy to clarify something for myself or the pup. Or both, smile. That and one time, I was working in this gentleman's house, and he claimed he didn't have animals, except for the two stray cats in his crawl space, and well, did he forget to mention the fleas that were crawling all over the stray cats and onto my dog! My driver saw them on her, and asked me to let her take her outside. She was so infested it looked like pepper, I have a cream colored dog, so pepper would show dramatically. So needless to say i got my business done with him, wipped out my cane and tapped my way out of his home, and found out later in the car what had happened. I always believe in having an escape route. By the by Front Line does all that it is promised to do, as does Advantics, both have kept my dog flea free, though we have ended up in homes that tested the intentions of the product. Shivers. The humans were flea free as well, and there were no fleas to be seen or experienced within thirty minutes of leaving his home. Shelley L. Rhodes, M.A., VRT And Guinevere: Golden Lady Guide Dog guidinggolden@xxxxxxxxx Guide Dogs for the Blind Alumni Association www.guidedogs.com The people who burned witches at the stake never for one moment thought of their act as violence; rather they thought of it as an act of divinely mandated righteousness. The same can be said of most of the violence we humans have ever committed. -Gil Bailie, author and lecturer (b. 1944) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lisa" <lison1273@xxxxxxxx> To: "seeing eye-l" <seeingeye-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 4:32 PM Subject: (VICT) question > Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="iso-8859-1" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > Hello everyone, I had a question for all of you. Do you carry a folding = > or telescoping cane with you at all times and if so why or why not? > Lisa > > >