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Our nextdoor neighbours are having some extensive landscaping done over the next few days. So I went out with Peggy this morning, armed with treats and prepared to stick them in her mouth while she got used to their presence.
What did she do? She wandered up to the fence, loose and friendly, and then waited patiently for someone to come say hi. Okay....
I decided to try the front yard, where more guys are working and where our neighbour has spooked her before. This elicited a single soft woof (the chatty kind, not the spooked kind), a bit of a hello wiggle, and...that’s it. No tension on the leash. No excitement. She looked up at me, I gave her a treat, and we went back inside.
These are strangers with all sorts of weird tools. They are practically in our yard. (We have only a low picket fence between our backyards and nothing in the front.) Why was she not concerned? I really want to understand.
What did she do? She wandered up to the fence, loose and friendly, and then waited patiently for someone to come say hi. Okay....
I decided to try the front yard, where more guys are working and where our neighbour has spooked her before. This elicited a single soft woof (the chatty kind, not the spooked kind), a bit of a hello wiggle, and...that’s it. No tension on the leash. No excitement. She looked up at me, I gave her a treat, and we went back inside.
These are strangers with all sorts of weird tools. They are practically in our yard. (We have only a low picket fence between our backyards and nothing in the front.) Why was she not concerned? I really want to understand.