Since Gimme is on antibiotics and they are believed to negatively impact a dog's scenting ability, I brought cheese to pair all her hides. The co-instructor declined because we were doing container searches with closed containers, so no way to pair without impacting the other dogs.
Container 1 video - This was a blind search with an unknown number of hides and distractions. Gimme had the first hide in 7 seconds - clearly she wasn't having a problem scenting, eh. She paid no attention to the distracters. Honestly if you watch, she was ready to leave after finding the hide, so she knew there were no more, though she happily checked them all for me.
Container 2 video - Blind again, but we knew they added one hide and more distracters, so not as blind as when I didn't know how many hides there were. Gimme had the first hide in 6 seconds and the second hide 10 seconds later. We worked them all, as if I didn't know there were no more. Even with a second hide, she trimmed 7 seconds off her search time.
Container 3 video - Not blind this time, another hide and more distracters added. Gimme did a fast and efficient job of this. It's pretty obvious she remembered where the first two hides were. She did a great job finding the third hide and finished with a nice fast time.
Vehicle 1 video - Blind search on three vehicles, unknown number of hides. Parts of this video are too dark to see, but not anyplace that mattered. The first hide she found was actually behind the tire, so her source was very accurate, in just 24 seconds. From there to the second hide was 21 seconds. I took her by all the parts she'd missed, and we were still out of there quickly, in 1:14. Lovely job.
Clearly the antibiotics weren't hampering her efforts in the least. These were all fast and efficient searches - Gimme at her best.
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