I had planned to do a relatively simple urban track for Tank, but after arriving at this location, it was more involved to get the non-veg. surfaces in there. This picture shows us on our first leg, and you can see 3 of 4 sand areas we used.
The rain had started, but lightly for now, and we head towards the first sand area with a left turn in there.
Tank is exactly where I stepped into the sand, you can see my footsteps in there quite clearly.
He did nicely through here and I left his first article just 2' into the grass. He did not like the sand, though!
Nice reward, and article pulled him through the sand.
Crossing a grass surface, we head towards sand again, and a right turn, this time BEFORE the change to grass.
Tank clearly wanted to leave the sand, his poor nose and mouth had sand all over, and he moved into the grass to make his right turn. I moved up closer to him to keep him working on the sand.
Turning out onto grass and then back into the other sand area, he moved along here nicely, even with a sandy nose.
I had lost the small leather article while laying the track, and he had just found it. What a good boy...I cleaned the sand off his mouth and nose here, as the article was on the turn (to the left) when he stopped.
Shortly after was the plastic article I had placed.
I dug in my pocket for a reward at this article as he had been working hard and clearly did not like working in the sand and snuffling it up his nose.
Lots of quick changes in this area, grass to sand to dirt track to paved pathway.
There is a turn here on paved path, and a lot of little puddles have built up also.
From the turn previous, across grass again, back to pavement, over grass and into a gravel drive/park area. Raining pretty good now, he's working to the left of the track.
And he turns back to the corner.
On his last leg, after turning the corner, he again worked to the left of this leg, and just turned back to it now. He's nearing the end.
The final article is about 2 metres into the grass, happy boy. Tank did pretty well, much more difficult track than I was going to lay for him, and shortly after this it just poured. We had to move to another location for Blasts' track, which was mainly a very long gravel stretch. It rained so hard, we could not continue to take pictures on Blasts' track, or later, on Emmas'. Considering the conditions, and all 3 dogs pretty new to urban, we were very pleased with them, and all of us were completely drenched to drive home.
I had planned to do a relatively simple urban track for Tank, but after arriving at this location, it was more involved to get the non-veg. surfaces in there. This picture shows us on our first leg, and you can see 3 of 4 sand areas we used.
The rain had started, but lightly for now, and we head towards the first sand area with a left turn in there.
Tank is exactly where I stepped into the sand, you can see my footsteps in there quite clearly.
He did nicely through here and I left his first article just 2' into the grass. He did not like the sand, though!
Nice reward, and article pulled him through the sand.
Crossing a grass surface, we head towards sand again, and a right turn, this time BEFORE the change to grass.
Tank clearly wanted to leave the sand, his poor nose and mouth had sand all over, and he moved into the grass to make his right turn. I moved up closer to him to keep him working on the sand.
Turning out onto grass and then back into the other sand area, he moved along here nicely, even with a sandy nose.
I had lost the small leather article while laying the track, and he had just found it. What a good boy...I cleaned the sand off his mouth and nose here, as the article was on the turn (to the left) when he stopped.
Shortly after was the plastic article I had placed.
I dug in my pocket for a reward at this article as he had been working hard and clearly did not like working in the sand and snuffling it up his nose.
Lots of quick changes in this area, grass to sand to dirt track to paved pathway.
There is a turn here on paved path, and a lot of little puddles have built up also.
From the turn previous, across grass again, back to pavement, over grass and into a gravel drive/park area. Raining pretty good now, he's working to the left of the track.
And he turns back to the corner.
On his last leg, after turning the corner, he again worked to the left of this leg, and just turned back to it now. He's nearing the end.
The final article is about 2 metres into the grass, happy boy. Tank did pretty well, much more difficult track than I was going to lay for him, and shortly after this it just poured. We had to move to another location for Blasts' track, which was mainly a very long gravel stretch. It rained so hard, we could not continue to take pictures on Blasts' track, or later, on Emmas'. Considering the conditions, and all 3 dogs pretty new to urban, we were very pleased with them, and all of us were completely drenched to drive home.
