Gimme did very well last night. Joyce tried to set up two converging odor hides last night, even though I don't really think the other dogs are ready for it.
She used the room dividers all tipped over to break up the big open space and that proved to be a big distraction. All the dogs spent a lot of time sniffing the bottoms, where the dog hair and pee odor was trapped. She thought the dogs were all getting caught in the "vortex"... but I interpreted it as them going in a circle pattern scanning all the newly disturbed dog odors from the dividers.
The first hide Gimme got one pretty quickly and it took her a long time to get the other; the one she had trouble with was on the floor. I noticed at the seminar that she had trouble with the floor/ground level hides and that she does most of her scenting with her head held higher. A couple of the video's they showed were of dogs that do a lot of high head searching and said the reason was too many high hides. Joyce does most of them at calf height or higher and is going higher to make inaccessible hides. There are other options for inaccessible, but that seems to be her fave. So I'm going to be focusing on very low and ground level hides during our practices to counteract that tendency.
During the second search, the odors were up higher and Gimme found both of them fairly quickly. She was much faster than the other dogs in class on both searches.
I'm pleased that she was doing so well, since I was too out of it to be of any real help. Took some drugs for my sinus infection and that left me with a wuuussszy head. On a positive note, the sinuses are much better today. In any case, just goes to show you Gimme mostly just needs me to sign the checks and drive the car.
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