What a different week so far –
Me had me usual Monday walk with trainer Jim and a couple of other pooches. As me and one of the other pooches were walking along side each on our leads we started to play together. Nice playing and sniffing each other. That was fun.
Dad took me for our evening walk on Monday and we met another hooman and their pooch. Pooch was nice and had floppy ear things. Me and pooch played for a while – no growls or nothing – dad was really happy and so was me.
Tuesday was school night so me got more stickers – some dogs were really barking but we all calmed down in the end.
Sometimes on our weekday walks we just go to the green area behind our house and dad puts me on a really long metal lead thing and I can run freely. Too many roads and cars if me wasn’t on lead and me still scares easily. This metal lead is super strong unlike the last long lead that me decided needed to be chewed into two. Don’t think me sharks teeth 
are sharp enough yet to chew stainless steel 
.
Today the postie hooman bought me some new yellow squeaky ball things – let’s see how long they last.
Dad had a really busy day working today – he did stop a few times to play ball though and we had an extra long play session tonight to make up for it. Dad is very thoughtful like that and me is also starting to realise that me will be OK doing me own things during the day. Bit by bit dad says.
On our evening walk tonight we stopped at a house called the red lion – think it was called that as two still lion things stood outside. They weren’t scary and me and dad practised some learning things whilst he had a drink outside. There’s always opportunities to try what you already know but in different scenarios.
Quite a few times whilst out this week other dogs have barked at me for no reason – me has just ignored them. Dad says my reactivity is improving and me confidence is growing.
Oh yeah – dad had to do emergency surgery on gingerbread man today whilst he was on a meeting chat. Gingerbread man has now only got one arm 
. Wait until he’s got no arms!
Feeling good and slightly more confident wuuufss
Marcus and dad 