Her track followed around the bottom end of the two ball fields and Gimme did a great job at it. As we turned left, somewhat parallel to the ball field, Gimme stayed on the crest of the hillock. Partway down, the track bent to the left, but Gimme continued forward, bending slightly right (dotted black line). After we went about 2/3 of the way to where we would be parallel to the article, Nadine called us back to restart at the corner.Gimme then turned a sharp right (red dotted line), crossed the paved path and went out into the field. She turned about 45º left until she got close to the wall, then turned 90º left again. It was on this leg where it became clear to me; I was being taken for a walk. So I took her back to the bent corner and encouraged her to sort it out. This time, while she still high on the hillock, she was a little bit down on the correct side of the crest. She bent stronger when she got close to the article and then turned the corner to go to the final article.
I think Gimme was originally following scent, possibly flowing up and over the crest. As is her way, she got highly perturbed when I pulled her off the track and took her back. So she says "Fine! You think you know so much..." and she takes me off on a walkabout. She's done this many times when she is unhappy with my handling. If we'd let her go, chances are she would have turned to the article when we got parallel to it. I may have Nadine lay this track again when we go back there. It may be awhile since their bathrooms are all locked up and we are there too long to do without facilities.
We skipped tracking on June 4th because Nadine had something come up.
On Thursday, June 11th, Nadine and I met back at Flaming Geyser. They still have areas set aside for migrating bird nesting, which limits what we can do, but at least there are toilets we can use.
Cricket missed the first article on her track, so I let Gimme recover it. She was perplexed to have such a short track, less than 100 yards with just one easy turn.
It was 61º and aged about an hour, with no breeze. Honestly, Gimme was so clean in her tracking, there is really nothing much to comment on. Perhaps recovering the missed article worked like a practice track.She did serpentine briefly on the second leg, but once she got to the first article she was all business. I was particularly pleased at how quickly she decided to cross the road and how she instantly picked up the track on the other side.
All in all, it was a great track, nice and easy. I was glad she got to have a nice track after the annoyance of the prior track.
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