Went to the Mashburn's place this afternoon and laid 3 tracks with food drops every 5 steps. The horses were out and I could see evidence of deer being in the field (tracks and poop!).
Track # 1 - Good start at flag but distracted a few steps in. Head went back down to work it out. Had to go back to check out a barrel on its side even though we had passed it, but she got back to tracking. Continued to pop her head up every so often to see what she was missing out on, but got back to tracking. Went to the article, but had to tell her to down.
Track #2 - Good start. This time she made sure to get every morsel of food at the start, which made me giggle! Popping her head up every so often to see what she was missing. Had one area near the end that I wonder if she was picking up some critter cross tracks.
Track #3 - This video is broken up into 2 parts (before the poop and after the poop). LOL! I thought it might be tough because we were going right towards one of the horses. But what made this tough is she heard some gunshots way off in the distance right after the start - so far away that you don't even hear them in the video. Vivi has super good hearing except for when you call her to come! So I waited it out and a car also pulled out of the driveway. Finally Vivi got back to tracking and then she had to poop! First time we've had that happen on a track. So that was when I ended the first video. Took her a while to get back to tracking, but once she did I thought she did a great job! Fireworks and gunshots really make her nervous no matter how far away and she managed to eventually get back to tracking.
Vivi was thirsty after running these 3 tracks. In the future, I think I need to remember to bring water with me for her to have between tracks if we aren't going back to the car.
QUESTION : What should you do if your start article has been blown 6 feet directly to the right of your start flag? This happened to us today on our 2nd track. Since Vivi went to the glove, I had her down and gave her a treat. I then moved it to the start flag where I had her down and treated her before we started to track. Later I was thinking that was not the correct thing to do because I seem to remember a discussion at the November tracking test about not being allowed to put the article on the ground to re-scent the dog and I thought that might apply in this case. Some of Vivi's distractions at the start of the 1st track: A decapitated bird (I thought it was a chicken, but the owner of the property said it wasn't a chicken but she didn't know what it was. They do not own chickens so something dropped it there. Knobbin - His friend, Bentley, died earlier this year so he has been alone, but now he has a new friend... hopefully, they ar...
I did food drops every 10 again even though I should have done 12 because it was quite windy. I will go up to 12 for our next session since she has done well with 10 even in the wind.
Happy New Year! 🥳 We went tracking this afternoon. Our goal was to do a multi-turn track with short legs to work on turns. She did not seem very focused after the first few steps. There was some sounds in the distance but I don’t think they were gunshots. I had to wait her out and try to encourage her to move on. It took a while before she took a few good steps and then she got focused on a few blades of grass. I thought she might be eating them because she does like to eat grass but she wasn’t. She was really giving those blades of grass a good sniff for a long time. Also, on the first leg she didn’t eat any of the food drops which is odd for her. She started eating them when we got to the 2nd leg. She was still distracted on the 2nd leg but started improving. Second half of track she was more focused on the track and did some nice turns with the last turn being her best. She did drink water at the end of the track and even more back at the car. She nosed the ending article but ...
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