Gimme did a good job overall. She was a little slow to get focused on her work until about the first article, then she got into it and by the end of the first leg was a tracking machine. Nadine made sure to pass behind one set of bleachers and in front of the other set. I didn't notice any difference in how Gimme handled them. Our biggest challenge was the little boy who wanted to pet her... and then when he finally left us, went on to handle two of her articles. We asked him to put them down and he did, moving them about 5 feet off the track. Gimme had only a little difficulty getting back to work after this distraction and there was no sign she had any problem finding the moved articles.
On January 13th, we went to Medline for some late morning tracking. It was cool, no breeze and damp ground. I kept track age at 25 minutes and kept the track short, just 211 yards long.
It was a really simple track with lots of articles for reward points. We had a start sock, a whistle/lanyard, two shoe parts, a 2" piece of plastic comb and a final glove, in that order. Gimme missed the comb, which was close to the end of the track. Obviously we'll do a bunch of small pieces of plastic as articles in the future. I set up an intentional challenge by taking the track between two 18-wheeler trailers, which were parked by a landscaping strip. Right before we got to this place in the track, a breeze picked up and based on her behavior it may have swirled a bit behind the trailers. Gimme came up the back of the trailers, turned left making a short loop on the landscaping strip, then turned back and looped farther down the strip behind the trailer on the right. This quick back-and-forth formed a perfect figure-8 (blue line). She then came back
to the track and drove hard and fast down
the track between the two trailers.
Other than missing the comb piece, she did a wonderful job and seemed to thoroughly enjoy herself. She's an awesome tracking girl. Just sayin...
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