Hanging out with Sabrina


Yesterday Brad and I got to hang out with our friend Sabrina! We first met her for lunch at Chicken Salad Chick (which is her favorite restaurant!). Even though the clouds were threatening, we ate outside. We did get a little drizzle here and there, but nothing that made us move inside.

Felix was very restless and had a hard time settling on his mat. Indy was perfect as usual LOL! At one point, Sabrina went inside to get a takeout box, and Brad watched Indy. Indy proceeded to curl up behind Brad’s wheelchair! Of course I had to get a couple pictures of that! And I got one of Sabrina when she got back, eating her pickle, too!

After lunch, we headed to a private agility lesson. Brad took loads of pictures and videos with his camera during that, so I will write a separate blog entry on that lesson later when the pictures have been edited.

After agility, we went to Target, as I had a gift card! Brad got a video of me coming into the store through the automatic doors with my wheelchair and Felix heeling next to me.

We went into the swimsuit section first, and it was full of stuff on the floor. Felix has a problem sniffing stuff on the floor, so I worked on the auto-leave-it with him. What I did was allow him to show interest in an item on the floor, but not let him actually get to the item. When he gave up and looked back at me, I would click and treat. This way he learns that he never gets to sniff items on the floor, but if he notices one and then looks at me, he gets a reward. Eventually he’ll learn to do this automatically! Here’s a video of us practicing.

I was taking so long videotaping that Sabrina went ahead of us, and we lost her! Brad got a video of Felix heeling next to my wheelchair as we were searching the store for her.

Eventually we found her, and went across the front of the store to get to the food section. There were so many people there and it was really crowded and wild with people making comments, little kids, etc. Brad got two videos near the end of the gauntlet. One includes a mom yelling no at her child who was trying to run over to our dogs. The other is just us heeling.

We eventually found the food section, and got ourselves a few yummy treats. Brad got some pictures with his phone of Felix and Indy (and Sabrina and me in our wheelchairs!) in the aisle. I am wearing my Mirabel dress, and Sabrina is wearing a yellow shirt and a cute tan bandana with flowers on it.

We walked around the store some more, and Felix had a hard time with sniffing. He did OK, but not great! Brad got another series of pictures of us in the electronics section. Felix and Indy lay down at the exact same moment!

Eventually we got done in the store and headed to checkout. Felix did such a good job in checkout! He just hung out under the counter while we paid. Brad got a video of it.

We were sad to part ways with Sabrina, but happy we got to hang out with her so long! Stay tuned soon for pictures and videos of our agility lesson!

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