11-18-24

 Soccer Complex near home. Sunny, 62 degrees (felt much warmer), 3mph wind, 59% humidity

Same track as yesterday except XT aged 30 min. There was heavy machinery operating nearby, so for confidence & to keep Seren from going too far down XT, I kept line @ 10 feet or so most of the time. First XT she went to the left (?again) ~5 feet & came back on her own. Took a few seconds to find 2nd turn. Second XT head turn both directions, last two no indication that I could see. 

Seren was really article happy today. In addition to nice indications of all her ‘real’ articles, she indicated every little piece of trash she could find along the way. None of it was too gross or too big, so I just pocketed everything. Our end article (raggedy old glove) was gone, I assume picked up by one of the groundskeepers, but she lay down in the EXACT spot where I had left it - didn’t hunt around for it or anything. So we lost an old glove, but got a cricket ball in trade.


Dylan did 3 straight line tracks, all heel-toe. First had food every 3 steps, second every 4 steps, third a smaller piece of food every 4 steps. Length of each was however long a stick of string cheese lasted. He did great. It was a real epiphany to me how unstraight a line I make while walking backward heel-toe, counting steps, watching my dog tied to the flagpole…. So maybe we have actually started doing open angle turns🙂


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  1. JudiNovember 18, 2024 at 12:06 PM

    Sounds excellent! I’d be working at 10’ as much as I can—there’s not much gained by more line out. Take note of the checking left first—that may turn into a XT indication for you. I LOVE LOVE LOVE that she indicated where the article was—good, good girl!

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