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Updates from home: During training, Pepper learned how she was expected to behave in the environment we lived in. It was a very “sterile” environment. There was no kitchen, no external responsibilities other than the work that I took with me, no unexpected things intruding on our planned training routine, etc. There were two cats who lived in the building. The cats did not go into the residential part of the facility and certainly did not bother Pepper in her crate, so most of the time when she encountered them she was in harness and working.
Now things are different. No one fixes my breakfast. I take Pepper into the kitchen and she has to be still while I do this myself. This means she also has to ignore the cats, who have access to all parts of the house. This morning Pepper’s project was to remain still while I fixed a bowl of cereal, ate it, and started a pot of coffee. Meanwhile, Kevin was doing a couple of things and a cat was roaming around. Another cat was lounging about three feet away from her in a chair.
She did it.
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