Tonight was our first class of the second session of nosework. Gimme was soooooo glad to be back for this. She really likes this work and the first time in always imitates a freight train, dragging me into the building as fast as she can go. She's a little less intense about dragging me after that - thank God. I realized after class on the way home that she was completely quiet riding in the car both to and from class and I didn't even hear a peep from her when we were there and she was waiting her turn. Sure am happy she's getting past most of the whining.
This time they had driven a vehicle into the building and we introduced the dogs to vehicle searches. The dogs will only be searching the outside of vehicles. For our first hide we started by holding the dog back while they watch the instructor put food on the bumper and then get to go and get it. Repeated that and then the third time the dogs were mostly very focused on the bumper and didn't necessarily see the instructor place the food there.
For the second hide, we pretty much repeated the process, but without the dog getting to watch the instructor and then encouraging the dogs to continue around the vehicle to find more. It was interesting to see that when Gimme finally found the little bit of food that was stuffed in the crack around the headlight - after that she became very aware of the cracks/seams on the vehicle and checked them all thoroughly.
The third hide was more of the same. Gimme did a great job and worked her way around finding all but two of them. Then on her own she decided she should make another pass and was rewarded by finding the other two.
This girlie looooooooves to use her nose.
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