Week 10 - Practice 2

1/22/2025

I practiced 3 tracks in 1 session.

Each track is Double Laid with treats and an End Article.

Flora and I met up at Yorktown today. Lotta good spots were close due to the park closing for weather, but we found a good field spot.

Session 1:

• Weather: 25F, 37% Humidity, Fair weather, Wind VAR 7mph.

• Located at a field in Yorktown.

  • Track One - End article, Double Laid Track 2:53pm

    • Aged 20 Minutes (I realize I have forgotten to write down times in recent blogs. the time tracks are aged is based off of time it takes for me to lay/partner runs their tracks)

    • 80 yd on short grasses.

    • Treats spaced every 6 Steps.

  • .Track One - End article, Double Laid Track 3:44pm

    • Aged 15 Minutes

    • 90 yd on short grasses.

    • Treats spaced every 6 Steps.

  • Track One - End article, Double Laid Track 4:06pm

    • Aged 7 Minutes

    • 100 yd on short grasses.

    • Treats spaced every 6 Steps.

GOAL FOR THE TRACK:

• To lengthen the spacing for food drops. (See Week 9 Class Blog for Homework notes)

How did it feel?

• Great! The second track took a while for her to get into it, but I believe she was trying to scent after where our buddy, Finwe, completed a track that the wind was blowing back towards her little Terv nose. (Also watching it again, I recognize a few of the 'I have to poop' indicators of spinning and nipping her lead. She did go poop after finishing her 3rd track.)

List three things the dog did well:

1. Enthusiastic to track despite various distractions of other visitors/dogs/wildlife.

2. Relatively straight tracking

3. Continuing to get better about realizing an End Article is in place to find.

List things you’d like to improve:

1. Continue working on nice focused walk ups.

2. Bettering my consistency in timing of rewards given at the end. Sometimes I am too slow.

   
   

Goal for next track:

• Continue lengthening our tracks.

• Continue stretching the food drops along the tracks.

• Play article games in more public settings.