I was getting the q-tips ready for our upcoming field trips with the level one scent, Birch oil. Naturally, just as I was swirling the few drops of odor oil around on the inside of the jar, Gimme came in from outside. She had her paws up on the table beside me in a heartbeat... letting me know she'd found odor and I needed to get busy and pay her. Her eyes were so big, huge, like saucers. You'd'a thought I was hiding a big grilled steak up there... There's no doubt that she knows what that smell is all about, eh...
Later when I was nowhere near it and I could still smell it. Probably got oil on my hands, so I washed up really good. In the future I'll wear gloves to handle the oil. For the most part the q-tips don't actually get oil on them, they just absorb the scent from being in the jar with it.
I'm planning some nosework field trips to Home Depot. I can go in and set two hides in different parts of the store. Then I'll go get Gimme and after she finds them and goes back to the car I'll relocate them. We'll wait awhile and then do another search.
I talked to Joyce, our instructor and told her what I wanted to do and am happy to say I was pretty much thinking the same thing she suggested. I also hoped to do some nosework field trips to Petsmart and she said that was a good idea, but suggested I should take Gimme there a couple times beforehand unrelated to nosework.
Sooooo we are busily gearing up for the ORT next month and trialing in April. I want her to be over-prepared so everyone can see her as the star I already know she is. I also need to get in gear and study the NACSW rule book so I'm not interfering with the acclaim she should get for her brilliance.
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