Match Videos

I took the plunge and changed browsers so that I could get blogger to work right.   So far so good.  Here are the video's of our four searches, in the order that we ran them.  Enjoy!

Exterior Search
I didn't intend to correct her when she peed... it just happened.  You can see she wasn't too crushed by the experience.  She definitely pegged where the odor was the first time around, but she just really likes checking the whole area before committing.  Sometimes she does that when there are two hides, finding both and then indicating one and immediately going to indicate the other. 

Container Search
When Joyce (our match judge and my instructor) said, "she's better already" she was referring to the amount of box killing that Gimme likes to do and our recent training with differential rewards for indicating the correct one first.  This was already a great improvement, since the Wednesday before, Gimme indicated 10 out of 18 boxes.  During this search she only really indicated 3 out of 21 - so that's pretty substantial.  You'll note she indicates the right one early on, but doesn't stick when I kept moving.  I do think I was moving too fast initially and partway through the search when I was nearest the camera I caught myself and slowed down.  It was shortly after that when she indicated and stuck the right box.

Vehicle Search
You will notice that Gimme seems a bit distracted to start with.  After you know where the hide is, it becomes clear why - she was walking by vehicles that had no odor smell to them and thus had no interest in them.  When we come around the edge of the second vehicle and she gets a whiff of Birch, she just dragged me over to the running board on the truck.  Unfortunately you don't get to see that because the cameraman can't get there fast enough and ends up coming up between the vehicles.  Taking videos is a hard job to do well and get enough accurate representation of what the dog did, without intruding and distracting the dog from the search.

Interior Search
Gimme did a nice job on this interior search.  Interestingly that was the first time she ever pawed at a chair, even though we've had plenty of searches on chairs.  Of course, then she goes straight over the top and starts rearranging the furniture.

She did a very nice job during this match.  She has such a talented nose, doncha know.  With the exception of marking in the grass, she really is the best dog around for nosework.  Not that I'm bragging or anything like that....