Kiya and I have taken on a new role in her training. Her biggest issue is socialization. She started the training process when she turned 3. The skills are easy to teach (except fetching) and she's got most of the commands down for that. But she is not used to being in public, having to behave, not greeting people, and paying attention for hours.
We've started weekly visits at a local assisted living home. It has been wonderful. She does not wear her service dog coat as that would be confusing for her. With the coat on, she needs to ignore people. So we go without the coat and she gets affection from all the residents there. They just love her and she feels the same way.
At our first visit, she leaned into a gentleman sitting at a dining chair as he petted her. She seemed really attentive to him. It was really nice.
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