Evidently working with... bicycles, scooters, wheelchairs, vespas, cars, trucks and segways was NOT ENOUGH for Merlin
Today he met his first rollerblader at the park and PUSHED HER OVER
I was beyond mortified and extremely apologetic, she just rolled passed me while I was picking up his poop and he had just enough time/leash to bounce on her and tip her over.
She was very kind about the whole ordeal but just ughhh he doesn't react to ANY kind of other rolling thing but for some reason, rollerblades is a WHOLE NOTHER ORDEAL
So I took him to a more popular skating park to work on it and he gets frikin FIXATED on people rollerblading. Not skating, not running, not jogging... JUST ROLLERBLADING. Stands there with huge pupils wiggling his butt
WHY MERLIN WHY!??! Of ALL the skating types, rollerbladers are the most prone to being tipped over and sensitive to my idiot aussie.
After a whole day I can get eye contact and walking next to me without fixating from 6 feet away but just barely. oy.