Took Pixie for a walk. Things were going pretty good. There were sprinklers going off by the school, out in the ball field and along the non-school side of the sidewalk. Pixie did good walking by them, and taking treats, but did the "treats are poison!" thing when we were past them. Would take treats dropped on the ground. Tried different hand positions, across body/same side, left/right, no real differences seen. Dropping treats on ground near hand with treats in it (done on accident) got her back to taking treats from hand. Then walked past some people getting in car, and a few houses later Pixie started barking facing back where we had been. At people in car? Or possibly at a dog's yard? It was dark, so not sure exactly what set her off. Once again, treats are poison. And then we walked past a car in driveway, and she was startled by a dog that was with some people sitting on the driveway on the other side of the car. I don't know which started barking first, but she did come along and grumbled, but no real resistance. Took a few treats on the ground, but then took from hand.
So, maybe it's an issue of stress stacking?
Side note: when we were back home inside, she was bouncing off the walls! Let her outside, thinking she needed to go potty, and she tore off doing zooms (granted, not greyhound zoomies, but the best she could do_. And ten she spent quite some time hunting insects of some sort, I think beetles. So whatever stress she was under was apparently not that severe.
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