08/06/2025
A fabulous if occasionally soggy evening of urban trailing in Kendal. Amazing work from all of the dogs. I'm into my seventh year of trailing and I'm still regularly blown away with how well dogs can work out trails in such difficult environments.
The roads and shopping areas are very quiet on a Sunday evening, which allows us to set up a whole range of interesting problems for the dogs to solve without always having to restrict them to working on a very short line for safety reasons.
Some of tonight's challenges included contaminated starts, working through the contamination of earlier trails, trailing across open car parks, walking into the trail from a different direction to the trail layer, age vs fresh trail decision making, distractions (planned and unplanned!!!!), trailing past restaurants and takeaways, many many alleyways, and many many junctions.
One super interesting moment occurred when Lola got some air scent of her trail layer across the top of a very tall building!!!!! Watching her try to work out what to do was fascinating 🥰😍🤩.
My personal highlight with Roxy was when she picked up a takeaway box - with food in it - and I asked her to leave it..... AND SHE DID!!!! Wonders will never cease 🤣😋🤣😋🤣.
Thank you to all of my trailers for another fabulous session. I'm sorry that I didn't get photos of all of your dogs.
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