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🦮Obstacles Training with Trainers-in-training and their guide dogs-in-training. Obstacle work is one of the skills taught to a guide dog in order for it to navigate around obstacles in a manner that ensures the handler does not come into contact with the obstacles. The trainer trains the guide dog to use its initiative when navigating obstacles. The dog has a choice it needs to make in order to keep handler safe; to stop before an obstacle and go around it, or to navigate handler away from it.