Self discovery on puppy trails and my best sprinting to keep up with little Reuben!
Self discovery on a puppy trail and my best sprinting effort to keep up with little legs Reuben 😮💨🏃🏻♀️
My needy little assistant whilst I’m catching up on admin today 🥰 #mantrailing #assistant #workingcockerspaniel
Hard surface, problem solving and building confidence for Coco #mantrailing #mantrailingdogs #gsd
Moose & I are out trailing this morning 💃🏻 Moose just reminding me to pack the most important item 😇😍
No wind sock required for trailing today when you’ve got Moose! 💨😂
Dexter has impressed me so much with his increase in confidence when it comes to trailing. And check out how he makes easy work of this short hard surface trail.
He was very shy of strangers when he started trailing, but as you can see he really doesn’t mind who he’s trailing now - this is only this third “stranger” trail.
We’ve some work to do to build his trust on his approach to the rewards, but it’s all done on his terms & at his pace 👏🏼
When you’ve only got little legs but you really want to follow that scent 🥰 boing!
Trailing with Moose today, nice progress in some areas, some homework for other areas 👌🏼
When you ask Darren to lay a trail you never know what to expect!
Today Dollar & his handler worked an aged trail with Darren hiding down a hole, which gave us a really interesting scent pool to work out and lots of discussion at the end of the trail.
Kudos to Dollar & Odette for keeping patient & working really hard to reach their reward - very well done! 👏🏼
Three weeks ago Dexter came to his first trailing session, incredibly wary of strangers & unwilling to trail. So we got him comfortable by getting him to trail to find his mum or dad and it was a game changer - he loved it!
With patience & experimenting with his end reward we set him up a very low stress trail with someone new and here’s the outcome 👇🏼
A leg stretch for Moose before I head off for this morning’s trailing group - slightly damp/dewy underfoot, cool air & blue skies to top it off. Perfect conditions.
Here’s Moose completing a scent inventory at the start of an aged trail, working through fresh contamination and 4 minutes later identifying the correct trail from the area. No rush to get things right 👌🏼
*(sped up to replicate how a real Spaniel works 😉)
Here’s Big Benny experiencing his first road crossing & change of surface - exiting woodland onto a short section of road and footpath and back onto grass where he eventually finds his runner. He problem solves so well and is a dream to watch trailing 😍
