Q: I appreciated your article last month about not falling while walking your dog. I actually have a problem much closer to home—in my home, in fact. Often (pretty much daily) when I’m walking through the house, my dog (a 10-year-old Maltipoo) cuts right in front of me. Setting aside the issue that he needs to be trained not to do this, do dogs not have a sense of space and their place in it? Could it be that their peripheral vision is lacking? Or might there be some other biological cause? I never move without looking down out of fear of tripping over him.
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