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I am quite happy and reasonably unconcerned, to leave Taylor outside a store or shop untied because he knows I am in the shop and he knows to wait for me in a sitting position by the door. I wouldn't leave a trained puppy in this situation because of the fear of him/her being stolen. But stealing little dogs that have no 'gang' or dog fighting value, are most unlikely to occur in NZ. Almost daily Taylor goes off lead around less busy streets, so he is street wise, doesn't venture onto roads or crosses the street but he actually looks for the footpath and won't move off until I give the command to "go." He does this sometimes with driveways - waits for me to say "go." As I said in a previous thread it's quite amusing. He sometimes stops 50 metres behind me and waits for me to say left, right, go or heel. Where I live, dogs are only required to be under control - off-lead or on.
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