Tonight we had an interior session with three hides. Then an exterior with one. Joyce had brought some of her gadgets so we could video our respective sessions and then view them on her laptop toward the end of class. Unfortunately the download time from her camera was longer than we wanted to wait through, so we went outside for another session. We'll watch those next week.
Because these were interior and exterior searches, there were no restrictions on what Gimme could/should search, so there was no way to gauge what she may have retained from last week. Overall Gimme did very well and found all her hides fairly quickly.
The third session outside was a bit harder in a couple respects. She was pulled toward where the hide had been in the earlier exterior session, and I had to convince her to move along. She was basically getting residual odor and really wanted to check it out. If I had anticipated that, I could have started her from a different spot. After that she was distracted by wanting to visit the line of observers (our human classmates, including Grafton's Mom). A plus, she came away from them with just a reminder.
This hide was interesting, because it was in one end of a short segment of pipe. It was set up so that the actual odor was at the end furthest from our approach (based on where we were parked). Breeze could blow through the pipe, making this a "channelled hide". The dogs were considered to have found it regardless of which end they went to, but as handlers we were to feed them at the end where the source odor was located.
All the dogs did well at this, which is interesting since this is a somewhat challenging exercise. Gimme wasn't fooled and went right to the source odor. Her nose knows...
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