Happy news Nettle with your client!
I have been wanting to make a snuffle mat but have yet to find a suitable base as described in a video which I saw.
Sirius had a pretty amazing walk tonight. She has been on what is intended to be her regular dosage of medication for about a week now. It is about three weeks since starting with a lower dose for the first two weeks. We are having some challenges with getting the medicine into her and she has stopped eating breakfast. We were giving the med in the morning but have switched to evening as she needs to take it with food. The loss of appetite is not unexpected and should resolve on it's own in about two weeks.
But back to our walk. Fairly early on our walk, we spotted a black, mid-sized dog on the other side of the street travelling in the opposite direction to what we were. He was walking along sniffing and minding his own business with his owners one of whom was in a wheelchair. Sirius was obviously aware of the presence of the dog as she glanced in his direction a few times, but that was the extent of her reaction to his presence. She would glance, go back to sniffing, then a little while later glance again and so on until he was a few car lengths behind her.
We entered the park and there was a smallish medium sized dog standing up on the hill by a ball field barking at her. Not what I would consider an aggressive junk yard dog bark, but more the kind of bark that Sky will sometimes do towards dogs on the other side of the street. More of a calling out to. I translate it into Hey.....Hey there.....Hello.....Hey. Sirius looked at the dog, but did not respond at all.
She did whine a bit as we passed the house with the multiple small yappers. There were a few rather noisy vehicles that passed us while we were on the sidewalk and she looked at them, but made no move to charge at them.
In fact, the only blip we had was encountering a husky that lives a little ways up our street now. We encountered her a few days ago and I dodged into the church parking lot and went to the far end. This time, the husky was the one who took to the parking lot when we approached as they reached it first. They dodged and vanished behind a church van parked in the lot beside the sidewalk. As long as the van was blocking them from our sight all was fine. Unfortunately, when I was able to see them again, I saw that they had stopped and were standing in front of the van. So did Sirius and things were not so fine. There was grumbling and lunging. I had Sirius's leash held short, so she didn't have much room to lunge and as soon as we got far enough away from the van for the husky to get past, they scooted on by. Three lunges and grumbles and that was the end of it, but the husky had been way too close for comfort.
Grammy to Sky and Sirius, who came to live with me, stole my heart, and changed my life forever as I took over their care and learned how to be a dog owner.
In the kind of luck that you feel bad for having, I just got a bag of felt to make snuffle mats out of. Gonna queue some Star Wars up as it takes almost exactly one movie to make a single mat 
Opal had already had dinner by the time I finished it, so she'll get her chance tomorrow. Also ordered some (sun dried, non chemically treated) rawhides and other good special chew treats for her. Bully sticks make her sick, sadly! We'll have to figure out some things she can have.
