I am really behind in blogging again; I've just had a lot going on. This class was on September 11th, two weeks ago. For these searches we were playing Running Bunny (hide gets moved during search). Also Dorothy was giving us handling changes. I was also working Gimme's indication training. Sometimes she does really good, other times she persistently paws the box. I couldn't figure out what the difference was for her. Generally speaking I've found her indications get more aggressive with each subsequent search in a class, so will be interested to see they are this time.
Container 1 search video -
Overall I thought she did well. She got into a bit of going fast and not indicating or maybe not searching, but then settled down and went back to work. I noticed on the second to the last hide, she was most persistent about pawing and it was a time when the box got flipped over.
In hindsight I'm wondering - when she tried to go back to the box she'd passed and I kept going, maybe she thought I was telling her the hide was no good, so then she ignored it.
Container 2 search video -
Again, good searching. Sometimes good on the indications, sometimes too vigorous. It almost looks like the deeper bow gets better nose touches.
Container 3 search video -
This time they got to search off leash. The indications for the third search were the best of all. This would seem to be just the opposite of what I normally saw in repeated container searches. Of course this one was off leash, which we'd never see in a trial.
I went through these videos a second time, making a list of details. Such as, the deepness of her bow, whether I bent over or kneeled, whether the box moved, etc. I still don't detect any pattern, though overall I did notice improvement.
We are entered for two UKC nosework trials in October, so we'll see how it goes.
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