I have decided after a year-plus of her carrying my lunch bag out of work that I want Fame to hit a button to open the door in the lobby. This is proving difficult.
Not with Fame, exactly. It's the helpful bystanders.
I can hit it fine, but I have to lean far to my left or drive so I am not really facing the doorway. An aside, this building is less than awesome with button placement. So if Fame does the pushing, I stay in the doorway, don't lean out of my chair, etc.
Easy-peasy, right?
Well, it's not a big square button, first of all. She pushes those easy.
It's one of those small rectangular buttons, maybe an inch by three inches. Fame rears up to push it, but she nudges the top or side. It needs a good push in the middle of the button.
No problem. I lean over and put a finger on the button to give her a target. At that point, a guard or someone comes over and pushes the button.
I say I am teaching her to push it, but the door is open. It seems silly to let it close just as a teachable moment for the humans.
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A messy idea, but it could work if she is food motivated: bring a jar or snack pack of peanut butter with you to work and get one of the helpful people to put a dab on the middle of the target. She will have it perfected in no time.
She is all about food, but she is slowly getting it. My co-workers are too!
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