Remember our special girl Callie?
For anyone new here, Callie is a gorgeous girl who is very nervous of lots of things due to having an unpleasant start to her life. This girl has absolutely thrived and developed confidence with trail hunting and is now finding things easier to cope with.
Look at her here just ignoring a passing stranger and getting straight on with the job at hand!
This might not look like much, but for a dog who has endured what Callie has, this is HUGE!
I love all the dogs I work with but this girl is very special to me 🥰
Well done to her amazing guardian Jane who has committed lots of time, energy & patience to help Callie feel safe in the world again ❤️
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We had a "decoy" pod on one of our trails today. This is a pod that is "clean" and has no odour. So we don't want the dogs to indicate on this one and need them to ignore it completely and continue to find the pod with the odour 👍
Team Theo demonstrating how it's done beautifully here!
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Another great example of giving the dog a choice & letting them work things out here from Team Maverick.
Mav is a working gun dog. He is also an intact adolescent. The location today was close to water, there were shooting sounds all around us AND lots of low flying feathered friends which were all distractions for Maverick
Here we had laid a "walk back" trail that had a human scent (with some residual trail odour) going off in the opposite direction to where the pod was located. So at the point where you see him shake off, he is having to decide whether to go left or right! The pod is on the left! 🥳
Brilliant work from this team today ❤️🎉
Do you want to see a dog in full on problem solving mode?
This is Team Halo running a hard surface trail. There was a breeze and a car had driven along the road which would have disrupted the odour. See how she stops to really consider her next move....
This is why Trail Hunt International really tires out the dogs. The level of brain power used is significant which uses a lot of energy.
Great work Team 👏👏👏
Such a beautiful location for today's Trail Hunt International Club session!
A very big thank you to Fiona & Emma for arranging this for us 🙏
There isn't a reel from Trail Hunt International Club today and that's because the instructor left her phone at home!!! 🤦
But one of the teams did capture some footage of the superstar that is Callie so here she is showing everyone how much she loves Trail Hunting ❤️
Great session from all our teams!
We had drizzly rain conditions today and a slight wind.
Then we had to have a change of location due to a football match arriving half way through our session 😲 AND we lost a pod on one of our trails due to an over zealous little picker 🙄😆. Thankfully I caught him in the act and was able to get the pod back 😉
But it's all great learning for our teams!
Well done squad....great work ❤️
Team Maverick are away on holiday this week and not able to come to club, but that doesn't stop them practicing 💪
Well done team - A⭐ students!
And I'm loving that Mav's brother Ralph is observing too. He'll be joining the Trail Hunt International squad very soon!!! 🥳
I thought I'd take advantage of the VERY wet conditions tonight and run a trail with Iggy.
For my Trail Hunt International Clubbers....which part of the trail (on the map) do you think corresponds to the video???
(Note: he's not trailing in the video...he just went back afterwards for a paddle 😆).
Bit of synchronised recall 🥳⭐🎉
Full disclosure....this doesn't happen every time 😉
No 1 & No 2 dog (Iggy & Doris) are great 👍
No 3 dog (Ms Tia) #workinprogress 😆
When you love your instructor so much you just have to come & say hi before you start your trail 😆🤣
Love you too Nellie 🥰
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Oh I do love a little homework video in-between classes 🥰 Team Cody smashing their little lunch break practice, enjoying a bit of free trailing in the sunshine!
Well done team 🥳🎉❤️
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I've been the caretaker for Midge Hall Secure Dog Field this week so that my good friend (who owns it) could have a well deserved holiday 😊
I deliver a lot of my training classes here and today I held Workshop 2 of the current Trail Hunt International foundations course. So tonight while I was doing end of day field checks, my dog, Iggy casually picked up a trail and followed it 😆🥰
I have a spare pod in the car, so he got to find it & get his reward 😉
Can we count this as an aged trail Alexandra Butler ??? 😉😆
