On Thursday October 24th, Nadine and I met at Flaming Geyser. She laid this track and we let it age 1:40. It was about 40º, dry and no breeze to speak of. Gimme started out well, barely noticed the road crossing and found the first article easily. She was a little less focused on the trail through the woods, but really couldn't go wrong. When she got to the foot of the trail, she went straight across the field on a walkabout, while the track turned right. Her head came up briefly before she started pulling hard. If I'd noticed the head-up moment, I might have slowed her down and then she might have taken the time to sleuth out the turn. Instead she didn't start telling me there was no more track until we got to the bigger road. When Nadine told me we were well off the track I took Gimme back to the foot of the trail - then she found the turn and tracked nicely to the end, finding the other two articles easily.
On Thursday, October 31st, Nadine and I met at Auburn Cinema. I was caught up in traffic and thus, 45 minutes late. Nadine had already laid out an article circle and a track for Gimme. We worked her two girls on the article circle and a track I laid for Cricket.Gimme did well on the article circle, though she overran a couple of articles and then would have to circle back to find them. She loves article circles. More specifically she loves all the treats she gets.
When we started Gimme's track it was 2 hours old. The temperature was 35º, it was dry and there was very little breeze. She did a great job on the island serpentine, finding both articles. As we got to the last island, Gimme took off to the curb across from us (green line), until she ran out of line and I didn't go with her. When I reeled her in she dutifully took up a parallel line along the ends of the white striped (orange line). Turns out she was right, though cutting the corner, and was headed to an article when I misdirected her. Being in a false pregnancy she didn't stand her ground. She was trying to figure out the un-corner at the end of the orange line where it rejoined the track when Nadine called us back. Once I stopped interfering she did a lovely job through to the end of the track. About 20' from the final article we came upon a truck straddling our track. Gimme just moved around it and then rejoined the track on the other side, right in time to find and indicate the final article.
She's a good girl. I'm a thickheaded and obtuse handler.
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