Yesterday's dog walk progress

Yesterday's dog walk deserves special mention. Sunshine confidently wanted to explore paths and directions we had not taken before. This is brand new behavior for him. Instead of heading our usual direction he headed onto sidewalks we have yet to explore so we explored them. He even did really well with cars and he curiously looked at people that he could see in the distance. The only time he flattened himself to the ground was when two motorcycles came up with two people each on them who were covered head to toe in black, including black kerchiefs over their faces and on their heads. We immediately did a U-turn and headed the other way to reduce the stress on Sunshine and he perked back up again.