We needed to fight the crowds down at the Wrentham outlets today, so I brought Fizz with me to do some work, and some socializing. It wasn't as busy as I was hoping for socializing, but we did get to meet 20 or 30 new people. She had a grand time charming groups of ladies, couples, a gaggle of teen age boys, and various other passers-by.
Fizz was VERY busy trying to find chewed gum in the cracks of the sidewalk. I was rather disturbed with the volume that she did manage to find (and then would start chewing on if I didn't catch her fast enough). Ew!
My goal for work was building duration in sits and downs. Her sit is on a bench for no other reason than I was hoping for a better photo. But....I was working with my P&S, and I just don't like it. MUCH prefer shooting SLR, but you work with what you have. :)
I was approximately 15ft back to take this. People were FASCINATED that a puppy would stay in a sit. Amazing what training does, eh? ;)
Fizz was VERY interested in the people walking by, they are a VERY high level distraction for her. But she was an awesome girlie and held her position. :)
Fizz has been taught to sit at doors in order to get them to open. I was quite impressed with how well she generalized this behavior to doors she's never entered (into stores with no inherent value to her, like Bebe and Coach). She sat at 4 consecutive shop doors on our way out to the car. People found her quite cute, I had to make sure they didn't let her in!!
