The client dog with separation anxiety was back for another training stay, and this time Terra initiated play with him! Yay! It was short because she tired out quickly and he was a little awkward.
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| Greeting the owner. (She's met him a few times now.) |
Toward evening we drove to downtown Davis and parked by Central Park. We walked along the park and then down the commercial strip. Terra is continuing to improve in her comfort level with strangers. She still sometimes retreated and/or hid, and sometimes just slightly moved away from people, but there were more times that she passed them neutrally, and many more times that she leaned toward people as they passed! Yaaaay! She was still scared of any person or thing who was out of the ordinary, such as homeless people sitting by the sidewalk, and a humanoid statue. She showed curiosity toward every dog we passed. She wanted to go into a few stores. She got into the groove of just walking along right by my side. I use the leash to control her as little as possible, and she makes it easy by being very responsive to light pressure.
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| Passing through this narrow section was scary for her and took a few tries. |
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| Leash looks tight here but it was loose 90% of the time. |
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| On the way home. |
My friend Aaron came over, and as he is big and tall, she hid from him. I told him to ignore her, rather than having him sit down and be available, since her fear level was higher compared to most of my other male guests. After a while she laid down and ignored him, and was comfortable going into the crate right next to him. She never approached him.
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