XMAS visit with Gina...

Today was my XMAS visit with Gina. When I talked yesterday to Sandra, one of the shelter employees, she let me know, that all dogs had to be back by 2 pm. After that they would hand out the XMAS packages to the dogs and take pix of them for the shelter.
So I headed out earlier than usual and got to the shelter around 11.30 am. Gina was excited to see me. Walked into the kennel gave her some attention and the harness was on her in no time. With some high quality goodies and some affection she let me put the muzzle on her without much of a fight. She wasn't happy about it, but she let it happen. Gave her some more high quality treats through the muzzle and then we headed out. Originally I had planned to to do some basic training with her in one of the facilities enclosure areas. But since it was already noon, we didn't do that. We headed out into the field and Gina was doing very well. But due to the fact that stage 2 will be starting very soon, we headed out to one if the local tram lines. I knew from the shelter employees that they had worked on that with her and that it wasn't much of an issue for her, but I really wanted to see that for myself. Walking to the tram was no issue at all. She really didn't mind the tram stopping either. Getting onto the tram and riding it for a couple of stations was no big deal as well. It's like as if it were second nature to hear.
We got off the tram after 3 stations and just as luck will have it we missed the tram back to our place of departure by one minute. So we had to wait 15 minutes for the next tram. Again riding the tram was no issue at all. So I think Gina won't be having issues with the other tram lines and the subway. After we got to our place of departure we headed back into the field to complete our round in the field, since we had only done 1/2 of the round so far. Again it was a perfect walk in the field. By the time we headed back to the shelter it was about 20 minutes before 2 pm. I put Gina back into the kennel, give her some more treats before heading back home.