Day 10 of GDT

This morning went just as well as yesterday morning with the traffic exercise. We had a lady called Helen visiting us from Hearing Dogs who wanted to check out how Guide Dogs do things. Odene again performed brilliantly but I defs don't ever want to experience her fail safe in real life!

As we're training so close to my home we went back to my house and took Odene to the front door and did the 2 trips to both of the bus stops I use. Kelly left some treats for me to give her at each of the stops to encourage her to always 'find the bus stop' when I ask her to. There is a bit of a fiddly straight line which leads to a traffic crossing which Kelly put some treats on the signal box so Odene knows to lead me straight to it for me to press the button. Lots of praise given at each destination and we got a few tail wags when she got the treats! We're going to practice this a few times so that she gets really confident on these routes as they are going to be the most common.

This all took up most of the day, it feels a bit shorter after yesterday where I did the night walk. I must admit though that I'm having another tired day so will probs be getting an early night!