I'm glad I decided to do a tiny track in another location, with decent grass on the start and see what the difference 'might' be...still can't be certain what the problem was the other location.
Blast was very enthused, dragging me up to the scent pad.
I stopped him at the scent pad on a quick down, and set him off. And did he go!Now this track was also barely aged, but the idea was to motivate him at the start and continue on the first leg totally ON the track and enthused. So that worked well.
The grass leg was short, then crossed a busy driveway, onto brick walkway and back onto grass. Very quick changes, not what would be in a test, but all part of seeing how he worked it.
This was an open turn, more of a big curve in the grass, to the right, and he was bounding off here.
Speedily on the track, between the bushes. A completely different start and first leg, than the previous track was. So glad I did this. I had given Tascha a ball on a rope for his end article, she laid both tracks so this comparison was the same. The battery went dead on the camera after this picture above. The short track went across a wide driveway, into grass with a turn, cloth article, and a man and his son walking across it in front and also on the next leg over the driveway and into the grass. No issue with them or their tracks. Blast just took a good look at them and dismissed them. He did great on the last leg under and through large pines, sparse veg. covered with pine needles and his ball at the end. Leaving him with this little excellent track was a good plan.
