7-10-25

 Courthouse Park. Wet grass with a fair bit of standing water. Seren had a 4 turn track, was supposed to have an article on every leg but I forgot the one on the 3rd leg. Her challenge was cover change from short to tall to short grass. Age 1 hour

We planned to play with every article, but she seemed to want to keep tracking instead, so I didn’t push it. Attitude was good, no issue with cover changes. Her article indication is broken, but I think it can be fixed easily enough. I was pretty happy with the session.




link to  video:  https://youtu.be/6gEwx_h0Eq0?feature=shared


Dylan had a 3 turn track, age 1 hour. Challenge here was track went past multiple things that he would be inclined to lift his leg on. There was extra food & scuffing, especially on second leg.

As anticipated, Dylan wanted to pee on everything, particularly the hedge row. I think I was successful in preventing him from doing so without shutting him down. By the time we got to the soccer goal near the end, he paid no attention to it.. Needed reminders to down at articles.



Link to video:  https://youtu.be/a3_IltgkcpQ?feature=shared

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  1. JudiJuly 11, 2025 at 5:42 AM

    Nice start! First turn—did you see her cast off and stop, or did you stop her? Loved the refind, and the transition to tall cover. Lovely second turn. Let’s start to make one (ONE) left turn a ‘hangman’ or overshot turn. Her lefts have improved dramatically, now it’s time to introduce her to the idea of looking behind her to solve the problem. Just one of those per track, and not every time! GoPro is deceptive, it looks to me like you could be closer—10’ max in training, and closer is fine.

    She looks good!

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    1. Seren trackingJuly 11, 2025 at 8:56 AM

      I’m doing this again as keep forgetting to hit publish, so if you get it twice there may be some discrepancies.
      Seren stopped on her own. I think she was expecting the 1st turn to be to the left, as it has been the last several times.
      I have a rivet @ 10’, so I can be pretty aware of that distance. That said, she probably did get further out than that in the tall grass as I was being hyper aware of where my feet were going. Also, about halfway down the 3rd leg there was a visible track a few feet to the left of mine - human or deer? - & I let her investigate that.

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  2. JudiJuly 11, 2025 at 5:48 AM

    Dylan, again, feels like too much line. I’d like him to find the track at the start, and follow it away from the flag. If we let him find it further out, that becomes further, and further, and further.
    As you work the pee, I’d be right on his butt. The goal is to teach him what choice to make, as opppsed to what choice not to make. If you’re right tight behind him you can simply stop (without any verbals) limit his choices, and go when he makes the correct choice. And food every footstep is fine while teaching this skill.

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    1. Seren trackingJuly 11, 2025 at 8:44 AM

      You’re right about the start. You may have noticed start article was several feet from the flag, & a bit off the track. I highly suspect someone or something moved it, as there was no wind, & I wanted him to work through that.
      You’re also right about not enough food on the 2nd leg; next time I’ll do better with that & with being closer

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