Celebration for Bernie! He had a big weekend meeting 2 new groups of people at our house. He had his muzzle on, and both groups (the first group was 2 people, and the second was 1 person) were all women. He barked a couple of times, we gave him cheese, and everyone ignored him completely. Within minutes he was rolling on his back for belly rubs and eventually calmly lying on the floor. We’ll keep trying to recreate these scenarios! We also had 2 friends come over (1 male, 1 female) that he has met 2-3 times but always barks at them…this time same thing as above! He wasn’t flooded at all.

We’ve practiced walking at the trolly track trail and loose park and sat at 2 coffee shops. There was a big difference between the 2 coffee shops cause, at one, it was just us and him, and he was redirectable with no barking/lunging. The second was with my parents and their dog – they hype each other up quite a bit, and Bernie was hard to redirect.