Here is the link for the fourth try of Gimme getting to meet the rat. She's pretty determined. What you don't get is the sound affects. She was making a very deep, full-throated growl. I've heard rats will often be at the front by the wire sniffing back at the dogs. Not this time, he was staying at the back of the cage. Can't blame him, I wouldn't have wanted to be on the receiving end of what Gimme had to say.
Gimme gets two tries just picking out the rat in a tube. You will note that I was too ready to call it her first time, jumping the gun. Gimme was still sorting out the difference between tube with litter and tube with litter and a rat. She knows what she's doing. There was another dog&handler with three tubes on the other side of the yellow tunnel, so the first time when she moves toward the tunnel, I think she was checking to see if there was a more exposed rat over there.
She does a great job in her novice run. You'll note at the very beginning she runs over and shoves her nose in between some straw bales on this pile. She found the rat there the first time. Then when she goes over toward the metal doors - there is a tube with just litter there, which she discards almost instantly.
Hope you have enjoyed these clips. Interestingly Gimme has almost completely ignored baby since her day with rats. She sniffed and moved it once last night, and sniffed it this morning. Seems she's decided she has more important things to do than be a pretend mommy.
2 comments:
She made certain that she was correct. Great work Gimme
Indeed.... this kid has a nose and she knows when her nose knows... I've never had any doubt about who was the one on this team that doesn't hold up her end...
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