Nosework (1/27)

The first two searches were about distractions. There were high value distractions close to each of 6 hides.


Interior 1 video - Gimme trotted around the room "cataloging" the distracters. I also thought she located a couple of hides during her tour, but it didn't seem to make them easier to source when she came back to them. Even with all this attractive stuff, she finds the first hide in 1:08. Unfortunately she scratched at it and got it stuck to her foot. She squealed when I attempted to relieve her foot of the hide. I most definitely didn't hurt her, rather I think she was just surprised by my strange foot-grabbing behavior in the middle of a search. At the time it seemed she was so concerned she wanted to leave the search area and in fact, she went to the door after each hide. Turns out she just really needed to take care of some personal business and which she did three times on the way back to the car (all full size in their own right - no clue why, since she had access outside for an hour before we left for class). Naturally the hardest distraction to work through was the expen full of toys next to the black stool, so she saved it for last.


Interior 2 video - For the second search the hides were moved, often to make them harder relative to the distraction, plus more distracters were added. Gimme spent just a little bit less time on this search. Naturally checking on the toys is a high priority; this is Gimme we're talking about. Even though it took close to the same time, I thought her searching was cleaner. She also didn't waste a bunch of time going to the door after each hide. (after the search she did another full size poo - no clue what's behind all this) Amazingly she got the hide on the black stool fourth, despite it being so much closer to the toys.

Vehicle search video - Two vehicles, unknown number of hides. I forgot to hand Dorothy the camera until after we'd started the search, so the time doesn't reflect accurately and there should be another 20 seconds. The video starts just a couple seconds before she indicates the hide. Gimme was easily the fastest on this search. I guess a girl is much faster when she's not carrying around a load of poo. I was proud of myself for reading her well and not prolonging this search longer than necessary. Good job Gimme.

We didn't get to parkour class this week. Less than half the people scheduled for the crew in my account's revision actually showed up. So instead of finishing by 2:00, we were there until after 9:00 p.m.

BTW we just learned our tracking pal, Sugar, had her puppies. Two each, boys and girls. All about a pound and healthy. Way to go Sugar...