Some visually impaired people/persons (VIP) use guide
dogs to help them navigate when walking outdoors, e.g.
when shopping, visiting friends or going to work. In this
article, I show how a VIP and his dog function as an
interspecies assemblage, in which they co-operate to
accomplish navigating and avoiding obstacles. Based on
ethnomethodological multimodal conversation analysis
and video ethnographic methodology, the article
introduces the concepts of interspecies intercorporeality,
which relates to bodily connection, and mediated haptic
sociality to describe the transferral of sensory feedback
through the dog harness, and thereby shows how the VIP
and the dog co-operate in situ. The article contributes to
visual studies by highlighting how senses other than the
visual are made relevant for accomplishing simple
navigational tasks, and how perception of the world is
achieved through a distribution of perception-related
actions.