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8-4-25

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 Courthouse Park Seren had a 4 turn track, with #3 a hangman’s turn to the right. At start flag I tried waiting her out for as long as I could stand it before telling her to down, which she readily did & then had a nice start. She was distracted about 1/3 of the way down 1st leg by a new friend off in the distance, got back to work after I called her back to me. Seemed confused at 1st turn (‘wait, I thought first turns were to the left these days’) but recovered well. Downed at both intermediate articles without verbal cue. Rest of turns were nice. I have no story made up for why no down at end article. link to video: https://youtu.be/U6zzkfc2dcI?feature=shared Dylan had a 3 turn track with short 3rd leg beside hedgerow & that leg had lots of food & scuffing. He did much better with staying attentive to the track than the last time we did this exercise. Everything else was good. link to video:   https://youtu.be/fUZLVjx1eFM?feature=shared

8-2-25

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 Hanover Courthouse Seren did a 3 turn track, L,L,R, with 2nd turn as a hangman’s turn. No article on leg 2. She struggled a bit with the 2nd turn, did not particularly want to check left but finally did & found 3rd leg. I could read LOS easily. Didn’t want to play with articles (or down for that matter), wanted to keep tracking, so I let her. Needs to work more with hangman turns to the left, hope decent weather lasts a while. link to video:   https://youtu.be/jMlo2CThxPo?feature=shared Had planned for Dylan to track beside a hedgerow again, but he had diarrhea this morning so I didn’t want to use any food. Instead I did a short straight track with end article hidden behind a tree. Took him a few seconds to find it. I predict next time he locate it faster. link to video:   https://youtu.be/jKqy9SeukMk?feature=shared