Seren tracking

 Capital Park Seren:  4 one turn start tracks #1 - age 1 hour. 52 degrees. This went well. She overshot turn, which was not marked, but re-aquired the track easily. I have never thought she was cued by flags, but I may be mistaken about this. Will pay more attention in the future https://youtu.be/JZP4JGmTHg4?feature=shared #2 - age 2hr. 54 degrees. Again, went quite well. Did better with the turn on this one. https://youtu.be/DqinnBDhHi8?feature=shared #3 - age 3hr. 55 degrees. Ended up running what is marked as #4 on the map for this one as by the time 3 hours came around a guy had taken up residence on #3 & was practicing his soccer moves. Seren has gotten better about her soccer ball noise aversion, but not good enough to want to approach the start flag, so we just moved on to the next track. She did quite well going away from soccer guy, but the turn would have caused us to go parallel to where he was playing & she didn’t think that was a good idea even though I co...

 Kelly’s Farm. Sunny, temp in the low 40’s, moderate wind, low humidity. Dylan had a 2 turn track, laid by Chris. About 90 min. old. He did well except preferred not to walk in the prickly stuff. Afterward we did some pick up the treats in the prickly cover games, outside of the tracking context & we will continue to do this  https://youtu.be/bqTovL-Ttrs?feature=shared

 Hanover Courthouse Seren: 2 turn track going through strip of woods. Age 4 hours. I thought this went very well other than a few glitches after coming out of the woods To do:  distance track, stairstep @3.5hr, obstacle exercise track using asphalt road (after finding a place I feel safe) https://youtu.be/92foqH-ZKIg?feature=shared Dylan: two 1 turn tracks. Track 1 was 1 hour old & went very well. Track 2 was 2 hours old & started fine but he had a lot of trouble with the turn. Don’t quite know what to make of that except it may have been too big a jump in age. I should have offered water, but didn’t have any as I didn’t think we needed it for such a short track. (He didn’t want any when we got back to the car) He has done 2 hours before, just not recently. This track had a lot of food on it, & he missed at least half of it. Will need to revisit this scenario. To do:  8 turn stairstep, distance track, series of 1 turn tracks starting at 1 hr old & increasi...

 Library Seren:  4 turn track with a portion in the woods, a road crossing, 3 hours old. 1-3 food drops per leg. Article in woods had food in it. End article (with food in it) had been moved ~6 ft to the right. She downed where it should have been, then we both caught sight of the article at the same time. It still had one piece of food in it Seren didn’t seem to think this one was as much fun as I thought she would. Ants were an issue & it got hot faster than anticipated - related? There was also a lot more activity at this site than there usually is when library is closed, I felt like I had to rush her across the road as there was a lot more vehicle traffic than normal. As on Tuesday, I like how she recognizes where an article had been. https://youtu.be/_V7tDqo9Qp8?feature=shared

 Surry P&R Dylan:  4 turn track, mostly in woods. Scuff start & out of turns, 1 food drop/leg. Age 1 hour. I meant to drop an article in the woods, but forgot. Dylan did very well. Needed verbal reminder for start article, but not end one https://youtu.be/Dvxhht_YQyM?feature=shared

 Courthouse Park Seren:  straight line article track, 3.5 hr old. I didn’t notice anyone messing with the track while it was aging, but someone obviously had. The end glove was 2-3 yards to the right of the track when we got to it. Seren hunted for it where it had originally been, then noticed it off to the right & went to it. 5th article (green hat) was gone & she hunted very hard for it, tried especially to go left but I didn’t let her go more than 30ft. She eventually lay down 2-3 yds beyond where it should have been. After we were done, on the way back to the car, I saw it hanging on a fence ~50 yds to the left of the track. Third article (leather belt), she overran by 2-3 strides, stopped on her own & came back to it. I thought it interesting that when I deliberately toss an article to the side of the track, she generally goes straight to it rather than hunting where it ‘should’ have been. I thought Seren did a really good job with this track. https://youtu.be...