if a house is open and no one comes, is it still open?

no good news to report from the open house. it's was pretty darn slow according to our realtor - only three families came in. :( at least they were all actual house hunters as opposed to nosy neighbors. but he said it's pretty rare to get an offer straight from an open house unless it's a super desirable house for whatever reason. fingers crossed that we have better luck with realtors showing it to individual clients. at least the house is super duper clean right now so we can keep it this way and be ready for additional showings at the drop of a hat. our house needs someone to love it as much as we do!!!! it really sucks that there are now 3 houses on our block of our street for sale. the one to our right is for sale and so is the one three doors down on the left. the one right next door is smaller and more expensive, but does have a garage which we don't. the one on the other side is also more expensive. it has one additional bedroom and a formal living room but is still the same (or less) total square footage. it will be interesting to see how this all works out! one of the houses has been on the market since 2/28 and the other has been on the market forever, since the fall i think (i can't find it on the yahoo real estate site or on the local prudential office's site, but the sign is still out front.) so yesterday for the open house we had to scoot and take all the pets with us, so jer and i drove around richmond for a few hours with 5 dogs and a cat in my jetta. loads of fun. how does it work for private showings? any experts know (carey!!!)? do we have to do something with the dogs during the showings? if it's on the weekend or at night we can load them into the car again, but if it's during the day, we can't exactly take them to work with us! doggy/kitty day care would be expensive! people have to understand that we still live here, right???