First day back at work for Sadie and I today after our Easter holidays.  My trainer is on holiday this week so Sadie and I will be practising our various lunchtime routes so we can identify any problem areas my trainer can help with on her return.  Never one to shirk a challenge I decided the first route we’d practice would be the one Sadie has historically stuck on.  Today she made the right turn smoothly with no hesitation or reluctance at all! Almost jinxed it by wanting to do a little happy dance on the pavement but I did one in my head instead so I didn’t throw her off kilter.  Sadie is still a little slow in places on the return route but that’s coming along nicely, and what’s a little dawdle now and then between friends.

Sadie is very much looking for our trainer both at the exit to the hospital where we have been meeting her and also around the shopping centre area…anyone dressed in even vaguely Guide Dog-esque attire gets Sadie’s full attention.  I’m not sure if she is missing her friend who has taught her so much or if she’s on the look out in case she gets corrected for something I’m not picking up on, she was certainly having a little fly look around just after making the previously problematic right turn….bit of a shame really that my trainer wasn’t hiding out somewhere to have seen the massive progress Sadie has achieved but I’ll be sure to give her a glowing report for today’s work.