Sasha and I went to a tracking workshop this morning. We only started tracking about 3 weeks ago but she's doing quite well.

First track; she blew through it and missed most of the food.
Second track; more settled and got over half the food.
Third track; had a dog and handler leaving their track and walking back past us. Miss Social Butterfly never picked her head up and only missed two pieces of food. Major accomplishment for my easily distracted puppy.

We're only doing short tracks right now but my goal by the end of January is to be doing a track the length of a soccer field.

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Sasha and I went to a tracking workshop this morning. We only started tracking about 3 weeks ago but she's doing quite well.

We're only doing short tracks right now but my goal by the end of January is to be doing a track the length of a soccer field.

Cool! Do you plan on doing CKC tracking or SchH?

CKC (I think?). We only just started so I don't know what the difference is. Right now, we're doing a workshop once a month with the SAR group about 30 minutes from where I live.

Sasha is an American Mastiff and I'm not sure she has the drive or ability to track competitively. We're just doing it for fun right now. It tires her out and is easy on her growing joints. She just turned 1 so if we do 2 or 3 short tracks, she's crashed out for about 4 hours. Love my low energy dog!

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While my baby nephew is sleeping I work Izzy with her nose I hide treats and tell her to find it she is getting better at every time so I have to be inventive with my hide spots. It is hard to really do anything when I am babysitting but I have to make her mentally tired or else

I've been hiding my keys for Kenzi to find. Fun, simple but still a puzzle for her and we can practice just about anywhere.

I started out by holding my keys and getting her to target them, then putting them on the floor for her to target, then putting them on different level (floor, chair, box, etc) then actually starting to hide them bit by bit.

Today I didn't do any training with Kenzi... Took her along a couple times to the neighbors when I exercised his dog and she got to play ball.

Kipp had another lesson on sheep. Nothing new there, but it went well!

Nothing much today just some heeling and then sit down stand on a narrow bench then long sit stay in field with a Brittany spaniel catching a Frisbee on the playground. I was far away from him. He did very well, didn't break his stay but looked once or twice and each time I walked over and fed him a few pieces of hotdog. Then he played fetch with the chuck-it very nicely didn't pay much attention to the dog then either.

I worked with Cody this morning, took him out for a walk in the Costco parking lot where he used to hate it, due to all the noises. Its been almost a year since he was there. Today there were some noises, but he didn't seem to be too bothered. We trotted around in heel and Cody had a blast. He loves to work, but heel is very hard for him because his idea for life is , run, run, hop, hop. He rarely walks. Today he did well and was relaxed and prancing around in heel. we left on a high note and took a drive. Went home and ran around the yard (back) unleashed, doing sit stay come, and then I put Cody through my little home made agility track. Plank, over, through, and would have done on the table, but had put it away, we have very cold temperatures here and rain. We practiced on and off on the slide. That was his day. The other two did not get worked with. Bindi was worked last night. We finished Christmas shopping today so we were busy most of the day.

Love hearing about all you guys are doing. It encourages me and give me ideas.

Keep it up!
sharon

Elizabeth: your dogs are so cute, what type of dog is the little grey fluffy one?

Thanks! he is a miniature schnauzer.

But he was a lot cuter as a puppy.lol

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Sundays and Wednesdays are protection days for Danni and me!