There are some local ladies who barn hunt and set up a practice ring. They invite all the local dog fanatics out and we all get to practice for a few hours one Saturday or Sunday morning and it's a lot of fun. I usually take Ferg, and I did today but sometimes random stuff will upset him. Somebody brings out a rat in one of those toy ball things, and he was great with it the first two times she brought it out, but the third time he just freaked out and had NO focus all day after that. Sooooooooooo... on a whim I ran home and switched dogs. I had really low expectations for Shark because he normally has no interest in sniffing things unless they'll get him in trouble. He totally blew me away today though! He did the instinct portion twice and seemed to catch on pretty quick. The first time they hid a rat for us he found it in 1:13 (I think at the novice level they have 2 minutes to find the rat) and the second he found in 49 seconds. You can't tell in the video because she was too far away, but he trotted by where the rat was hidden, came to a screeching halt and went RIGHT to it! And he has SUCH a fabulous alert- he flips the tube with his nose, so I don't have to wonder if he's found it like I do with Ferg. If I could just get his ginormous butt to go through one of those tiny little barn hunt titles, I bet he could get a novice title super duper quick. Sorry to ramble, but I am just SO stoked at how great he did today!
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