The two white lines are where we parked. The dark grey area at the top of the photo is the river and the medium grey line above the track is where Gimme drifted toward the river. Right after the drifting area is the covered picnic area and the track went right through it. This was the hardest part of the track for her - it just took her a bit to decide to commit. Once she did, she just zoomed through. The rest of the track, including the two road crossings, went easily.On Thursday, November 22nd, we met at Auburn Cinema. Since it was Thanksgiving morning, we took advantage of the big empty parking lot for the Outlet Collection Mall. The area is overrun with trash (don't get me started about how rude people are these days), which provided plenty of distraction. The parking lot is about twice as long as the cinema parking lot, so we were able to lay some really long legs.
I worried how Gimme would do since she is so deep in her false pregnancy and I thought it might be too much to expect her to focus for as long as she'd need to for a track. I need not have worried at all, she did a really nice job on this. She was distracted a lot by all the trash. She'd see a bit, run to it and sniff it, then move back to the track. For the rest of her track, she did a stellar job, making the turns easily and finding all of her articles. I was very pleased.I can't complain with how she's doing on her different scentwork sports even though she's in a false pregnancy. She does reasonably well at parkour, especially since we are doing lower level for entries for premier level 1. RallyFrEe is a different story - she stresses so easily. She just wants to get back to the car and her baby - this time a blue lamb toy. Thankfully, in a couple weeks she'll get back to normal.
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