Last night, Wei started working on her leash handling with Hans and Nola. Spoiler - she did great! Hans and Nola both worked so well, and we are seeing them really starting to love Mantrailing!
Nola - Kelpie x Staffy
Hans - Belgian Shepherd
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Erma's night time trail.
Double Blind (well, there was only me working the trail....)
Length 380m
Age 27mins
Location - After Hours Industrial Estate.
Some cool little take away from the trail. Being able to watch and realise Erma was following blown odour at the start of the trail - You can see her body language change as she starts to loose odour and eventually realises there is nothing out here for her.
Once we returned back to the scent article, she took odour again by herself, and recommenced work this time in the correct direction. Erma is so fixated on the scent article at the start that sometimes that can cloud the scent inventory as she is trying her hardest to get to the article and not taking in the environment thoroughly which may of shown her an exit point from the scent article - something for us to keep working through.
Very happy with how the rest of the trail went and her proximity alert near the end of the trail was very clear which is awesome.
Windy conditions, plenty of surface transitions, contaminations added due to foot traffic during the aging of the trail - all in all, a successful trail with some good takeaway and video footage to digest.
Thanks Alison for hanging out in the dark sitting in a bush - who is next?!
Gail & Poppy the Coonhound X Harrier - Poppy's first morning Mantrailing. This is Poppy's first exposure to a corner along the trail. She handles it beautifully and with ease. Trails like this will help to build a solid trailing foundation for when the trails get tougher. Poppy knows she is close to the trail layer after the corner as her pace increases.
Gail & Poppy make an awesome team!
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Jewel the (almost) 4 year old Doberman.
This is a great trail with some very clear body cues displayed by Jewel when she is working the trail and entering proximity.
Whether you are new to Mantrailing or already have a few trails under your collar, I hope this video helps to point out a couple of K9 body cues to look out for on your trails. This is also a great example of why its important to record and re-watch your trails, as a lot of these cues can be subtle and easy to miss when learning.
Keep an eye out for our next commentary video.
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Train your 'leave it' command. It will help you when you come across a distraction on the trail. Being able to quickly and efficiently get your dog off a distraction and back to work will increase your success rate.
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We attended the Track Trail Workshop held by Paul Summerland Dog Training in Kyogle last weekend.
Erma did exceptionally well and received her Level 1 Soft Surface Certification. This consists of a trail length of minimum 500m, aged for 30 minutes, minimum of 1 corner and a time of 15minutes to complete the trail.
Ermas trail consisted of 530m, 2 corners, aged for 33 minutes and was completed it 5mins and 45sec.
Super proud as always. A solid foundation plays a huge part when trails become more difficult.
Massive thanks to Paul for the weekend.
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Thanks for introducing us to suburban and urban trailing Paul. You've opened our eyes to ways of using the terrain we are surrounded with for training exercises.
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🎉🎉 Student Spotlight 🎉🎉
Meet Lily the Border Collie with a stumpy corkscrew tail and the biggest smile!
Lily favourite food is dried green lipped mussels,, her favourite game is to kill her linen tug and she also likes to reverse her rear end into people so she gets butt scratches!
Lily is all sweet and innocent until a dog she isn't fond of gets too close for comfort and she turns into a little Monster, which makes Mantrailing a perfect sport for Lily as she doesn't have to worry about coming across another dog during her trail.
Lily was one of the first students in Australia to do the Toowoomba workshop earlier in the year and it's been a pleasure watching her go from strength to strength
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Spent the morning with Paul from @summerlanddogtraining . He put Erma and I through our paces with some suburban and urban hard surface trailing.
Erma very seldom enters busy urban environments so it was a great sight to see her commitment to the trail over all the stimulus and competing motivators.
She is now exhausted and asleep in the swag ready for tomorrow's workshop.
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Erma's night time trail. Working on a hard-surface road crossing. Known trail as I wanted to know exactly where the trail crossed the road.
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