Our first search was a large exterior space. Last week's class was about people crowding a hide location and this week was simply a crowded space. Gimme is in season, but fortunately could care less about her attire when searching.
Exterior search video - The beginning of this search was cut off - basically she went straight to the hide from the startline. The startline is the change from dark to light pavement at the bottom of the screen. I was so involved with what Gimme was doing and I had a migraine, so forgot to say "alert" on the second hide. (the end of the parking stripes on the right side was the search area perimeter) She stutter-stepped by the drainpipe so I took her back; she rechecked it and left. On the way back toward the startline, she briefly sniffs the drain on the move, but keeps going. When I turned her back toward it, she finds it readily. Drains do strange things with the movement of scent.
Interior 1 search video - They filled the foyer with things to make it a cluttered area. Luckily Gimme isn't much bothered by clutter. Needless to say, leash handling was a bit of a challenge. Gimme finds the first hide really fast and keeps trying to go back to it. Had this been a blind search I might have called finish before the second hide. All the dogs found the second hide challenging; Gimme was the fastest.
Interior 2 search video - Gimme is quick to find the first hide. It takes a bit longer on the second hide, but once she gets in the right area she catches drift from it and it doesn't take long to source and indicate.
Interior 3 search video - Thankfully this time we get to go off leash. She found the first hide and gave the briefest indication, leaving before I could pay her. I would have paid for the weak indication if only she would stick the hide, but once she left, I really couldn't pay for it. Sticking the hide is a very important part of the indication. She's very quick to find the second hide and indicates clearly. You can't see it on the video, but she's got her nose under the chair and then keeps looking at me over the chair. It was damn cute. She goes by the first hide a couple of times before she finally indicates - dramatically. It seemed she was annoyed at me for not paying up on the earlier fly-by-indication so only condescended to indicate again when she couldn't find anything else. She does have attitude.
Interior 4 search video - This time the room was opened up and the hides were all moved. Gimme finds the one on the step-platform quickly and then finds the one in the box at the far end of the room. She misses the one under the step-platform, but then gets one under a chair. From there she goes to the hide on the step-platform (the first one she finds) and when I say, "Thank you - find me another one" she goes forward a bit and catches scent from the hide on the ladder - which she indicates seconds later. I stayed near the threshold and she worked around me until the found the threshold hide in the file box. As I wander to the far end of the room where hide number six is, she happens to step on the step-platform, then whips back to indicate it. It was a long search, but six is a lot of hides.
She did a nice job on her searches. I wasn't sure how well we'd do, since my shoulder was out of joint, hurting me a lot and affecting my focus. Fortunately Gimme was able to take up the slack and do well without my help.
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