Long legs 12/4

 Total length:  652 paces.  Longest so far! 4 legs, each over 100 yards.  1st leg 205 yards.  Harsh cover--little grass, lots of wild raspberry, tree stumps, seedlings, tripping hazards!  Ran at 2H30 minutes.  

Tricks WOW'ed me!  BEST I have seen him track!  He kinda tip-toed through the track. . .picking up his feed purposefully.  Also tracked at a more slow, deliberate pace. I felt like I had more time to really read and study his signals.  He definitely goes "sideways" when he is going off track . . .head one way and butt another.  So I stopped and waited for him to come back to the track.  Also stopped and waited when head came up looking around. Article indication  good--Stopped at mid-way article and end article.  I waited 3 - 4 seconds before rewarding.

Turns were good.  Sometimes he double check the turn and other times, right into it.  (I wonder) why!!

Took water 3/4 of the way through on an up-hill difficulty.   Helped him through.

Maybe I just need to slow him down in general.

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  1. JudiDecember 7, 2022 at 6:14 AM

    This sounds like great progress! I've often wondered why sometimes they check the turn, and sometimes they take it....it is a consistent finding across all dogs though, and sadly they can't tell us!

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