[nagdu] anticipating

[AnnaLisa Anderson]

Hi Julie and all,

I think based on what everyone has said so far, anticipating from our dogs
is a skill we all very much appreciate.  Sunny is very good about
remembering places we go often and slightly turning as if to inquire if
that's the way I want to go, but if I tell her no, not now and good girl,
she will move on.  My previous dog Megan could be very stubborn about that,
especially if it was when we went a certain way almost all the time, then I
decided to change the routine and go a different way this once.  She would
plant her feet and refuse to move without some very firm coaching.  So we
got into some rather serious "debates" as Margo put it, on a few occasions.
<smile>

When Sunny was in training, there was a Starbucks that the trainers would go
to all the time.  So when I got home, Sunny always wanted to stop at any
coffee shop we passed.  It took her a while to realize I'm not a coffee
person at all, so we rarely go in a coffee shop unless I'm going to get hot
chocolate or something.  But what's really funny is how they can seemingly
read your mind at times.  Sometimes I just think about stopping somewhere,
where we usually don't stop, and Sunny will turn her head that way as if she
somehow knows I was thinking about maybe stopping there, even though I said
nothing aloud to her.

AnnaLisa and Sundance