Week 18 - Quella's trip to the train station

I took Quella to have a look at a train this week, although I have taken her to a busy train station before, but she was still being carried out then and took it in quite calmly. This week I took her to our local train station. I decided to wait on the opposite platform so that the train wasn't too close to her, she was fine as the train was approaching, but she moved back when it pulled up opposite us, and then when it started to move away she wasn't hanging about she decided it was time to go, she was off like a rocket. I think it was the noise it was making that she didn't like.
I suppose the world doesn't look too bad for her from the comfort of mums arms, but once walking out by herself it is much more daunting for her. 
I can remember watching Crufts one year on TV, where they strapped a small video camera onto a dogs head, and then went out into a busy shopping mall, and looking through dogs eyes, it was all so different. It was just a huge mass of legs on the move, with shopping bags peppered here and there, and sometimes the bags would knock into the dog. While walking a young puppy we could never imagine what the outside world looks like to them.
I will take her back to see another train in a while, but next time I may sit on the platform, and let Quella sit on my lap, and I may turn my back to the train hoping she may gain some confidence from the fact that I wouldn't turn my back on something unsafe.
I suppose if the puppy was perfect from day one then it probably wouldn't be so interesting, or challenging, it is quite nice to have this challenge, and something to work at and conquer.
I once had a Guide Dog puppy that hated the traffic. She would leap under the hedge as traffic passed us, and when we mastered the small traffic, she still hated lorries. Whenever I saw a lorry approaching I would gain her attention by offering her a treat but still kept hold of it, so she could chew at it as the lorry passed, and after a while of practicing this she wasn't even aware a lorry was passing. She went on to qualify as a working Guide Dog, and is working in busy Manchester surrounded by no end of heavy traffic.