Timken Hits The Town....Part 4 Visiting A Public Coffee House In Seattle

We had a coffee date with a couple of other New Rattitude volunteers, their dogs, Mingus a past foster dog (and his doggie buddy) and his mom who owns and runs the great little coffee house in Greenwood neighborhood of Seattle. We had such a great time and I have to say that Timken rocked the coffee house! This boy is surprising us on a daily basis with his shift from fear and anxiety in new environments to the curiosity I mentioned in a past blog post. This is not to say he is 100% comfortable with all these new encounters but he was there for 3 hours and there were people coming in and out and other dogs to meet, clicking sounds of the espresso machine (Tim doesn't like a lot of clicking sounds). But with all this he took treats from everyone and even ran around a little and left our sides quite a few times to explore or get a treat from Mingus' mom across the cafe.

Here comes Timken!

What is this place?

There is Mingus to greet us. In the background you can see Bella, Mingus' good buddy. She is a rescue girl too!

Mingus photo bombed me....lol Love those whiskers...

This is Tim getting up on our friend's leg to get some yummy treats she made for the dogs. Notice her sweet girl Chauncy (a NR alumni) wondering who this stranger is getting treats from her mom.

Unfortunately I didn't get any other  pictures of Chauncy, she was being such a good girl.

And look! Her mom makes these adorable and healthy little treats. Our crew got to have their own package of them :)

There is Chauncy on the label. Very clever. I love how the "S" has a little bite taken out of it.

I guess Tim needs to learn some doggie manners now. He really wanted some more treats! Mingus was hoping for a morsel too and then Nina (on the couch) another rescue dog was there with her mom.

Mingus has learned impulse control. He is such a good boy and waited nicely for his mom to say "ok". (see the treat on her knee?)

Tim learning who has been there before him.

Beautiful Bella posing for her picture. Sweet girl!

Elsie (another NR alumni) and Nina wishing I would put the camera down and give them a little treat....

As you can see Tim was not relaxed at all. This was after 3 hours, he had worn himself out from meeting all the new people and eating all the yummy treats!

Skip was a super good boy too, what a great time we all had. We had tired dogs on the way home and everyone behaved like good dogs should.

Check out Tim running around and jumping into foster dad's lap. He was having a pretty great time!

Stay tuned as we have decided to hit a big box store type of pet store with Tim next. That will be interesting and there will be a lot of really novel things for him to see and experience.