Kelly and Deacon 250 m trail
Lesson #2
Lisa and Ammo 290 m trail
July 20
Joanne and Sugar 260 m trail
Redbone Coonhound, born to track! Nice work.
Met this little Mal girl today from Ivan Balabanov, “Tres Bein!” 👏🏻Owner Kelly Pollock.
Here are Leona and 1 year old Magnum practicing the small articles and turn handling Micah was demonstrating! This is the veg version. Beautiful hard pull by Magnum! Great job! This was the third turn on this little track - practice makes perfect! At the end he nose touches the leather thumb of a work glove!
Micah small articles demo
Micah shows a short demo of achieving awareness and nose down on hard surface with tiny articles.
If this was trailing - beautiful pass! CKC sport track - fail for missing an article.
My 12.5 year old Ben ran this blind track as we prepare for a Masters level CKC urban test. He missed an article (very challenging as you will see) so it would have been a FAIL in CKC. In trailing it would have been a nice pass with a person at the end! No articles except at the start. Lots of food for thought.
Ben tracked through cars and people to this point, dead on, and was on the track here too aside from being on the left of some trees instead of the right - he is very near the end. He missed a leather glove on the left side of a car where two people are exiting and talking. I see Ben try to indicate he smells something but we end up past the article. Is there another place it could have been put down? We all wrestle with article placement in CKC sport tracking.
In a Canadian kennel club test this would be a fail no matter how well he did on the entire track. Articles can be very difficult and tricky. There is nothing wrong with the placement here except that the parking lot was filled with people as an event in the church ended while we ran this track. He goes on to nail the last turn to another article.
In trailing a person would be hiding at the end. No articles. The dog goes from beginning to end without worrying about an article somewhere that may be out of the scent in urban areas as scent cones spread and with turbulence caused by cars and people.
It reminds me of the time (2011) when my German Shepherd River had a test that started in a parking lot that ended up filling up with overflow parking for a baseball game. She circled and circled to find her way in and out of the lot. Then she indicated a worn out old glove which I held up for the judge. Nope not the test article.
As it turned out her proper article was about 15 feet to the right and she was in the scent cone. I just didn’t see it and now I know how brilliant she was. She exited that area of turbulence and was on the track and picking up speed but called off for failing.
Of cours
Nancy and Robin first tracking lesson
Nancy and Robin the Golden first time tracking - finding Joyanne! Beautiful work.
First lesson!
Thandi the Cavalier - first lesson - finding Nancy, using the backs of vehicles to follow scent. Great work! With owner Joyanne Wood
Thandi the Cavalier King Charles Spaniel first time tracking! She’s finding family friend Nancy. Nose down and motivated worker! With owner Joyanne Wood, AB, who said she would be a good tracker!
This is Kelly and Arsen’s 5th lesson! He’s a very young Malinois. Beautiful work!
Kelly and Arsen finding Kathy!
My young Border Collie Quill does an introductory road cross turning into the wind. She looks so serious! Almost feral!
Micah Open Angle Intersection slideshow
These still shots from the video show Micah’s work on this open angle intersection. She is a very good dog and understands hard surface and transitions as well as productive scent sources. She knows how to connect the dots!
