Maddie NW1, 11-29-25, Bay Team trial, San Jose, CA скачать в хорошем качестве

Maddie NW1, 11-29-25, Bay Team trial, San Jose, CA

Maddie is a baby dog, and our challenges as a team are: -- Environmental distractions. -- Getting hung up in pooling odor. Going into this event, my goals were: -- If Maddie is hung up in pooling odor, unstick her and get her searching in new areas/directions. -- Resist the urge to call "alert" unless I am quite sure that she is at source. -- Get greater duration and commitment at source. Here is the breakdown by search: -- Interior: Circled the room in the same direction a few too many times. Showed interest in the TV. It turned out to be pooling odor. Only when we pivoted towards the center of the room did Maddie discover the hide on the chair. Could have done that a few cycles earlier, but all's well that ends well. -- Exterior: It wasn't pretty, Maddie had a pretty high level of distraction, but we did cover the search area from multiple directions and find the hide. -- Containers: As with some of the other search areas, Maddie kept checking out spots on the floor. On her first trip up the line of boxes she paused at the one that turned out to be the hot box, but she didn't do her signature "down." We looked at the rest of the boxes, came back down the line (where she again paused at the box), and then turned around again. This time I got a little more commitment (though still not the "down"), and I called it. -- Vehicles: This was our final search of the day. If we passed, we titled. Vehicles was the element Flurry and I flubbed in her first NW1, so I was nervous. There were 3 cars side by side in the search, and I vowed to carefully search all of them. Except that Maddie picked up pooling odor on the other side of the first car, worked it around to the other side, and pinpointed source on the wheel. It was by far our best search of the day, and a very proud moment. We worked hard on vehicles leading up to the trial, and it paid off.