I wanted to do a track with several turns and I had something like this in mind, though on paper now it looks much more involved than I envisioned. Also, while I was laying this track, I saw four large deer walking by, about 75 yards away. Gimme didn't seem to find them distracting. Then again, they were closest to the corner near the yellow arrow where she had another issue, so she might have had that not happened.
The blue squares are articles: start, after landscape crossings and end. Red squares are beef jerky drops. Brown strips are the landscape strips.Right before we started two vehicles drove right over the first leg of our track and probably the second leg (the only way out). Gimme really struggled to sort this out. I helped her a tiny bit. She did well on the second leg after the landscape strip. Third and fourth legs went well until....
When she got to the drop on the fourth leg (yellow arrow) near the drain, she suddenly shook her head violently and leaped away. I didnt' see any bee or ants, but she avoided that treat. I picked it up for her and gave it to her with the next treat. I checked her face/lips for any sign she'd been stung and found nothing. I think there may have been a bee that buzzed near her face, but didn't get in a sting. I restarted her at the corner. At the next food drop she kind of snuck up on it before deciding to eat it.
She slowly got more enthusiastic throughout the rest of the track. She struggled with the last leg. Having created this map from my drawing and put together the distances, I can see the track was really far to long. It ends up being 462 yards. It only took her 23 minutes... so not bad given the difficulty, but really too too much for where she's at right now. I'll make sure her next tracks are simpler and motivational.
Sil says we are in section U2 of his next book. I'm going to put that section in a notebook and keep it in the car, so I can follow it carefully. Hopefully that will be a more logical progression and keep me from overdoing it.
LATE BREAKING NEWS FLASH - I think Gimme did get stung, on the back of her neck. There's a little bald spot there, which popped up all the sudden. It's in a spot where I would have noticed it, if it had been there before. I do know inflammation in the skin often makes hair fall out. At least it doesn't seem to be bothering my girl.
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