Last Sunday we had a "stranger" lay very short tracks for Emma and Blast and gave him flags to mark the corners to make sure we could determine how the dog was working following someone "new". They both did great, so we were very pleased.
This was Emma early on her first leg, going through garbage. She totally ignore all of it.
She's just confidently taken her first corner (see green flag) in front of Tascha.
Last leg, Emma is running by this time, to reach her article. Very nice. I've just put a few pictures from each of her two tracks on here.
New location, track laid by Tascha. Emma is just turning off the first leg, crossing some dirt/gravel and on to the grass again. When we came back to do this track, we had to wait to let the little tractor (seen below) go by. He had been running back and forth right over her first leg while we were gone!!!
The fellow in the tractor and the one raking were quite fascinated watching this little dog. They were kind enough at this point to wait while Tascha and Emma went past. I had previously stopped when driving through and explained what we were doing. We figured this complete track had been walked, raked, or driven over many times before Emma did a good job on it!
She had a little trouble at this corner, Tascha standing on it. The turn was in the middle of the driveway, lots of contamination, but she worked hard and got it and off she went. Shortly after this, a man stopped, blocking their way, wanting to talk about 'the little dog with the bushy tail'....you just never know. She went on down the driveway, made another turn up onto grass.
And shortly found her article. Such a little cutie Emma is!!!
