A new boarding dog checked in Sunday. Terra was wary at first, but I knew that she would warm up to him quickly. Within ten minutes they were playing. I have to referee because they get too intense. Sometimes the other dog mounts Terra, which makes her lose her balance and fall over with a yelp.
We went to Home Depot on 11/13 as I needed to buy a larger chest freezer. She did great walking around the store, until the end - I was at the service counter placing my order for later pick up, and there was a series of loud noises from merchandise getting moved around. She tried to bolt and I had to hold onto her harness. I placed her between myself and the counter, hoping that she would feel protected, but she still kept trying to pull away after the noises had stopped. Poor thing.
Before that happened, as I was maneuvering us into line, a woman stopped right in our path and asked "boy or girl?" I gave the barest of polite smiles and moved around her. She turned and asked "is your dog a boy or girl?" I barely kept myself from rolling my eyes and ignored her as we got into line. One of my pet peeves is random people asking questions about my dog that don't actually matter, just to satisfy their selfish curiosity. In this case my dog was wearing a vest that says "in training" and I was trying to get through a crowd, so I didn't have patience for it. I almost snapped "What does it matter to you?"
Terra went to Cai's agility class on 11/14 as usual. She settles well now when I leave Cai next to her and walk the course, but she gets upset when we both leave for our turn. So I had one of the other students feed her pieces of chicken. That worked to keep her quiet. The student reported that during our third run, she wasn't so interested in the chicken anymore, but she was still calmer.
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