Gimme got hers without too much problem, though she did still give me the whole attitude thing. Sometimes I think she does this to make the "fun" last longer. Basically she stepped on or pawed all twelve boxes, then did several more, crushing one, on her way back to get serious about the real box. Still its better than what she did for the Birch ORT where they had to replace 5 boxes and the odor box - this time it was only 1 box and the odor box. Susan's husband was nice enough to video it for me.
While you are viewing this... if you really watch carefully, you'll see Gimme tilt her nose toward the correct box between stepping on the 4th and 5th boxes. So she knew it was "over there" that soon. I have to admit that I didn't see that nose tilt in real time, though its very clear in the video. And lest you criticize me for not calling alert the first time she scratched the correct box - I've learned that when Gimme is searching with the multiple hits like she is here, to make sure she is more specific in her alert. So I wait for her to "stick" the box, which means that she stays with it even though I move past it. The first time she didn't stick it and the second time she did (not to mention she got more serious about demolishing it).
Nova arrived with her dogs just after I finished with Gimme. So we didn't have to take any special measures to ensure Gimme, Empress of the Cosmos, didn't get her nose bent out of joint. Within a half hour of her arriving, we went in for Freea's first run of the day on Clove. It occurred to me that we could have someone in the room to videotape, so decided it might as well be Nova, so Freea would be happier. She's still a Momma's girl, and you can see where she wants to go to Nova in a couple places, but I was able to get her to work again and she did a good job.
After that we had two hours to waste, so Nova took me Ridgefield for lunch. Found a sweet little Mexican restaurant and pigged out.
For Freea's second run (Anise) I had Nova go into the gymnasium ahead of us. That way, Freea could see her and then move on without looking back to see where Mommy was. As you can see in this video, it worked very well and she got it in 8.5 seconds. She's a good girl and it was fun to play with her.
Gimme is miffed at me right now. She was just sure as soon as we got home that we'd have a training session - and yet, here I am, on the computer. So, I better get off the computer and get on to doing the things that SHE deems important...
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Congratulations. I enjoyed watching the videos. Have to get back to work with Wesley.
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