12-19-24

 Taylor Park. Short grass

Seren did a 3 turn track with last leg going thru a narrow strip of woods. Aged 3 hours. All articles, including clear soap dish, good. Tentative start, perhaps due to some weird wind currents in that area that I did not think about when laying track. Steadily gained confidence down the first leg. I didn’t see loss of scent indication until ~10ft past 1st turn. I then stopped & she only checked left, finding 2nd leg easily & taking it. 2nd turn dead on, as was 3rd. But after she made the last turn, she had second thoughts, went back & checked to the left briefly, came back & continued on last leg into woods & out to end article. During long straight legs, I let line out to 20’.

I continue to gain confidence in reading my dog & reacting appropriately.

Day or 2 off, then do some starts.

Dylan did the same tracks as yesterday. He made the turns nicely & downed on his own for all articles.

I did his tracks across the street from the dog park, hoping for some distractions at a distance, but no one was using the dog park at the time. I gave him a new article for his 1st 2 tracks, then ended with his slipper