Exactly.
From Glenridding you go up to the old lead mine (1.5 miles up a back road), where the route splits. Then either (1) go right and up to Sticks Pass reaching the ridge, as Percy says, between Raise and Stybarrow Dodd about 2 miles N of Helvellyn or (2) go left following the Glenridding Beck up. After a short mile, at c 1700' you'll find a rising path off to the right. This leads up the Keppel Cover zig zags --- to reach the ridge between Raise and White Side, saving the trouble of going over Raise and putting you within a mile of Helvellyn's summit. It's a long while since I went up that way, but it's perfectly easy, including for your four-legged friend, being an old pony route from the Victorian era.