06/03/2023
Ali was awesome today. She learned to let me take a chain off a gate & open it towards her, to stand by another gate for me to punch the code to open it & didn’t panic when it made noise & swung open towards her or when it started shutting back after we went through it. She then knew to go to the other keypad when we returned so we could get back in. She wasn’t too fond of going into an unfamiliar open pasture across the street today but I just slowly zigzagged further & further into it then we came back straight through it & circled some trees across from our driveway going left on one then right on the next until we finished them. I take her a little further away from home each time just waiting until she starts to get a little nervous but she never speeds up. Hopefully, she didn’t memorize the gate code! She did temporarily spook at home when a buzzard flew pretty close over us & squawked by jumping a step forward & starting to trot a couple steps but I said your fine & she immediately went back to walking like nothing had happened. She recently got some new custom made bling on her bridal. The lady makes the whole piece & doesn’t just glue crystals into the browband. She makes dog collars & wristbands, too.
