On Thursday, August 30th, Nadine and I met at Auburn Cinema for tracking. The conditions were cool and breezy. It was a fairly simple track. What became a challenge was the times the track crossed over main driveways, so I had to interrupt Gimme's
work to let cars go by (pink dotted line). It's good practice to have her tracking disrupted and then having to get back to work, but it does make for disjointed and inefficient tracking.MDSA trick video - This month's MDSA seminar was about tricks. I'm continuing to work on Gimme's backward weaves. For the seminar finale, we each got to submit a 20-30 second video of our dog doing tricks in a sequence; starting and ending on a platform of some sort. I started Gimme on her red, white and blue tub. I used the nearby tree for an "out" around (parkour), then a 180ยบ center front pivot, "scoot", into "heel", "spin" into "otto", finishing with "bacon" to back-on the tub. Gimme was well focused and it didn't take very many tries to get her to do the sequence. Some of those were for me to figure out my handling.
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