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River

A Tri-Red Aussie/German Shorthaired Pointer’s journey to a Tracking Title. 

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2/8/24

Doing the frequent food drops, scent pad with food at turns and keeping line short to 10 ft. The tracks(3) were two turn with turn in...

2/7/24

Take aways from class, shorten up on line, keep line at the 'golden' degree of pressure when River is tracking, and more frequent food...

1/31/24 - 2/4/24

Tracks with 1- 3 turns and a lot of food drops. Outing 1: After doing 1 turn tracks, River got the turns, right and left and did try to...

1/30/24

Mary Ann Massie laid a TD track for us. Really beautiful farm. I was trying to be confident in myself and River. It went ok from start....

1/28/24 field near Cabelas Short Pump, VA

River no scuff, W60F30; weather challenge as misty rain, 46F, and ground was wet grass weeds and puddles. Did long first leg and I...

1/27/24 Hidden Rock Park Maidens VA

69 F (yes, really in January), warm day which River prefers, partly cloudy, only light breeze and soft, moist soil, grass River - no...

1/20/24 field near Cabelas, Short Pump

Practice on a long first leg with one turn (right 90 degree). No scuff, W60, F30 No scuff did not negatively impact this track...

1/18/24 Huguenot Park

I planned a long leg with one turn, but there was no one on the fields, so I did a fun 5 turn track. And, I was so surprised when...

1/16/24 Huguenot Park round #2 with frozen slush

Still frozen slush on the ground of 2 fields so River got another chance to learn that she can track in the frozen stuff. I tried to mark...

1/16/24 Huguenot Park

Light dusting of snow, 35F, so somewhat melting and puddling grass ground. S3W50F25 as I wasn't sure how River would work on this ground....

1/14/24 Huguenot Park

Track #1: stair step tracking exercise Track#2: 3 turns- no scuff & 1 food drop per leg near midpoint T1- on legs that had scuff prior to...

1/13/24 Greenfield's Athletic fields

River's path is in RED. River S3W60F30 no scuff out of turns River started off just to left of the track line, she crossed on to dirt...

1/12/24 Huguenot Park

Cloudy, humid, damp grass, no significant wind S5 W60 F30 Longer straight 1st leg with 1 open right angle turn. Crossed paved walkway...

1/10/24

Huguenot Park - short start tracks on soccer field Gusty winds today but sometimes blocked by the surrounding trees. S5 W60F30. ...

1/1/2024 Robious Athletic Fields

Misty rain, wet grass, 42F River - S5W50F25 and scuff out of turns; crossed track pavement; distraction challenge from man doing laps...

12/30/23 Robious Athletic Fields

S5W50F25 on start tracks; 2 right and 2 left turns Some takeaways: First, continued good progress with that fetch ball reward after the...

12/29/23

Stair step style track, but shorter legs than instructor's preferred length, as we only had one soccer field to work on. I did adhere to...

12/28/23 Huguenot Park

Cloudy, wet, squishy grass and puddles. Primarily left turns of 90 degrees, one open right. Note to self, do more right turns, maybe on...

12/27/23 Huguenot Park

Long, straight track with S5W50F25 and then F25,27 for 2/3 of the way through the leg. This was wet, soggy ground, short grass and...

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