Friday, December 29, 2006

Tracking - Obedience & Protection

Friday morning at Southside: Ann brought Basco, Jojo brought Gunner & Nero.

Aron ran a 500yd track with 8 articles. Short cut grass, quite dry. He did well, the pulling has eased and he has slowed himself so I will do the next coupe tracks with the same prong and perhaps move to either the larger prong or the fur saver soon.

We finished up at Southside around 9:00 and made the drive up to Port Royal School. After a quick stop for a couple bacon, egg, cheese, avocado sandwiches we got up there for 10:15 or so. Jermaine joined us with Capone.

We worked all the dogs in obedience, particularly working on focus, heeling and distractions.

We started protection around 11:20 and ran through all the dogs twice.

Aron fooled me somewhat. I never would have thought he would have had such a hard time running four blinds. We introduced a bunch of distraction from the helper and its the first time in about 3 months we have set up the four blinds. He stayed under control and never got a bite out of turn but it took a couple repetitions to get it really clean.

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