Nosework class (1/37)

I'm behind again. Been doing taxes and Gimme is CERTAIN she is being abused.

Vehicle 1 video - I don't know why Gimme swung out to the right from the start line, since the vehicle was to our left. You can definitely see when she catches odor and it's all catch-up for me then. She gets to source right away. You can also definitely see when she decides there are no more hides.

Container 1 video - Gimme finds the first hide easily, but then struggles finding the other one. She kept going back to the first one, but was also searching elsewhere. I'm not sure I would have read this right in a trial and might have called "finish". The hide she struggled finding was down at the end, close to where the wind whips around the building.

Exterior 1 video - This is not an easy search. The wind is always the strongest along the back of the building. It takes Gimme 1:40 to find the first hide. Then just 25 seconds to find the next hide. I think the wind was swirling the rock hide over toward the trucks. As Dorothy points out, once Gimme found the first hide, she did go back close to the trucks where she'd shown interest before, but then leaves it to go right to the area of the rock hide and has it within seconds.

Interior 1 video - Note how direct Gimme is, going straight to the second room. She wasn't even interested in the foyer. And if you had divided the room into quadrants, she spends the whole time in the quadrant where the hide was located. This search was really nice.

Interior 2 video - This search took her 2 minutes to resolve. It was definitely playing with her expectations. She was so interested in all the stuff in the middle of the area, partly because she's found hides in center-stuff before. She also checks the aerobics steps at the end of the room. The things she barely notices are the bookshelves, chairs and fan - which are all where they normally are. When she doesn't find something readily, she slows herself down and then is able to find the hide behind the fan.

Interior 3 video - Gimme finds the first hide at the far end of the room in 22 seconds. She finds the second hide in 23 seconds.

She was really on fire this night.