Eating in Front of Me

Although Bella doesn't take food from my hand, she now comfortably eats in front of me.  This has developed over the last couple of days.  I've developed the habit of sitting with my coffee in my bedroom with her after I put the food down.  Over the next several days I'll try to move closer to her so that I am sitting next to her while she eats.  It helps me to think that I am taming her rather than training her at this point.

Yesterday I took her on a new walk.  New just means going left outside of my driveway with her instead of right and taking a loop a few streets over.  This was faintly alarming to her.  She is wedded to 'The Walk' which is ritualistic to her.  "The Walk" begins when I turn right outside my driveway and simply go up and then down the street.  Variations from this are greeted with trepidation, but I want to challenge her gently and not create a pattern we can't veer from.  So on the new walk, the "Loop" Bella anxiously tried to turn back a few times and didn't feel more relaxed until we approached the part of the road she knows.  I'll try it again today.  None of these walks are more than a mile.