I haven't blogged since last year. Where does the time go?
Even though I haven't blogged much, Gimme and I have been staying busy. We've been doing a lot of walking, both on the fort and downtown around the lake. Naturally I've been busy changing over from Christmas to Valentine's at my accounts.
I've made New Years resolutions to eat healthier, to add more aerobic and strength training to the walking I do, and
to train more consistently.
Yesterday Gimme and I walked five miles with Mary and Grafton. We did a lot of recall training since I'm helping
Mary retrain Grafton's recall. Gimme already has a phenomenal
recall.
Afterward we went to another place where Mary lost her glasses a week ago. I
quickly taught Gimme to search for Mary's stuff, by having Mary trot
ahead of us, wave to get Gimme's attention and then drop gloves, her
whistle and other things, one at a time. As I saw Gimme "find" each, I
cued her "show me", which we already use in nosework. Each time she
went back and indicated what she'd found and I rewarded her.
We were
searching an area that was about an acre and a half. I thought I spotted the glasses about 20
minutes into our searching and as I headed in that direction, Gimme
changed where she was looking and moved ahead of me, finding them before I got there. I
cued "show me" and she went right back to them. This isn't necessarily
anything I'd planned to teach her, but it is similar to an exercise they
do in Ring Sport and its certainly useful. I do love watching this girl's brain work.
She is soooooo damn smart.
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