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Continue reading →: The Challenges of Master Interior
This post is dedicated to those of you venturing into the Master Interiors class for the first time. I have started trialing Yeti seriously again, after a bit of a hiatus. We have our Excellent Interiors title, plus a few extras, and the time has come to proceed into Master…
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Continue reading →: Why We Are All So Stupid At Trials Part Two
I was talking to a former student of mine at a trial recently.“How did you do in buried?” I asked. “Well he did great! He got third place!” and then her expression fell. “but the judge said that I didn’t call them quickly enough, he said Pookie got them both…
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Continue reading →: Why We Are All So Stupid at Trials
Last week I was trialing with Yeti, and I made a handling mistake. This is a mistake that I have made before. In fact, I would say that it’s a mistake I have made a number of times. So we failed the search, and I went back to my car…
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Continue reading →: More About the Buried Element
I ran Yeti in a local trial last weekend, and although we had not worked on buried for quite a while, I entered him in the Master level. This was a “what the heck lets see what happens” kind of move, atypical for me because I like to over-prepare for…
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Continue reading →: Mantrailing–the long and winding road
I haven’t written about MT for a while. We are still out trailing many weekends, but we have gotten through that honeymoon period where I thought that Yeti could do no wrong. We have stumbled through a few disastrous episodes where Yeti started well, but lost the trail a little…
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Continue reading →: Are You Boring Your Dog?
Scenario one: I am in class, watching a little terrier work. It’s an two-hide search, and the hides are in easy places, one under a chair, the other under step stool. This is a bright dog and he should make quick work of it, in but I see him moving…
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Continue reading →: The False Alert Cascade
I trialed Yeti last weekend, in UKC vehicles. I wanted to test out where he was in his training, and while the results were disappointing (no Qs for us!) I felt that he worked well, and that there was progression. We were trialing at the Masters level, which means searching…
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Continue reading →: Exteriors and the “oh no!” NQ
It has finally, finally reached EXTERIORS season here in Texas. For obvious reasons, I don’t teach exteriors during the hellmouth time. So all of my exterior searches are concentrated in the cooler weather period, which means in just about every class, from now until April, we will have at least…
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Continue reading →: What You Don’t Understand About the Buried Element– Part Three
In my last post, I wrote about how the dogs will naturally search the buried bins. In this post I would like to talk about why. (Note: if you missed my other posts on the buried element, you can find them here: What You Don’t Understand about the Buried Element…
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Continue reading →: What You Don’t Understand About the Buried Element (Part Two)
Yeti working away from the buried bin Last week I wrote about judging a buried element class and watching dogs fail because their handlers wouldn’t let them search away from the bins. (Thank you all for the comments and shares, you are very kind). I thought I would write this…
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I’m Ellen
A Scent Work trainer, instructor, competitor, student, and judge. Welcome to Sniffing Around Scent Work, a blog where I write about my experiences, thoughts and musings on my favorite past time.
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