Vivi & Carolyn

 Short on time today after work so we did a 10-article track in the mowed grassy area beside my road by the golf course.  On one side is the road and the other side a grown-up bushy area.  Not sure this was my brightest idea, but we worked through it.  A car went by midway through and Vivi is very reactive to most cars.  She wants to attack them and chase after them (we are working on it).   I just put her in a sit and waited her out until she got back to tracking.  We got back to it and only had 2 more articles to go and I guess we startled a rabbit on the other side of the road because she went hopping into the woods.  Of course, Vivi wanted to go with her.   Waited that distraction out until Vivi got her mind back and we finished.  Felt like that track took hours, but probably only took 15 minutes in reality.  Just seemed like forever!

 Tracking Update - We have been doing 3-turn tracks with 2 open turns and 1 right angle turn.  Pattern is food drop every 15 steps and scuff 5 steps after each turn. We have used the fields at 3 different schools for these tracks.   Since I was off Monday, I went to the Mashburn's place and did a 4 turn turn track.  We had a start article (which Vivi never seems to be very interested in) and, after the first leg, I dropped a different article midway through each leg as well as an article at the end.  I used 2 different types of gloves (one at start and other at the end),  but I used other articles for the other drops - all leather or fake leather wallets.  She stopped at all except this one particle which she didn't even seem to notice at all.  It is a fake leather coin pouch.  Not sure what was going on there, but will definitely use this article when we go tracking this afternoon. I signed up for Kyla Smay's VST online workshop!  ...