2/27/25. Blind Hangman - phone view https://youtu.be/eGHwtjU4ANI?feature=shared At 1:29 I saw the head turn and he looked back at me so I slowed down and put a little pressure on the line. Go Pro view https://youtu.be/QFmWaBCJbFs?feature=shared Great head turn and stare at me at 1:37, 1:38. I think I should have stopped instead of slowed down?? 60 degrees, gusts up to 29 mph, 46% humidity Laid at 9:25, ran at 10:40ish Good start, good articles, stayed with track The random gloves that were 5 yds past the end of the hangman drew him forward and then he is used to continuing on straight after finding an article, so he went straight on. Andrea stopped us and then we did the back up routine until he found the leg. I was happy with our overall performance.
Haven’t watched videos yet, but…an explanation. Dewey’s trained answer to solving scent problems is to use air currents to ‘take him to source.’ We don’t want that. If you single lay the track, I think it’s more likely—it’s easier for him—to do the behavior he knows best. If we stay with double laid tracks—for a long time—the easier path appears (he decided this, not us) to be the track. So now we have to take the time to balance his X number of hours of training nosework with an even great number of hours of double laid tracks—because not only do we have to train the new behavior, we have to do it while appreciating that what was learned first was learned best. So we have to overcome that. I actually think he’ll learn this new skill quickly, as long as we set him up to be successful at tracking when he’s tracking, and at air scenting when he’s doing nosework.
ReplyDeleteOh! Thank you for the explanation! I have a lot of hours to put in (we did scent work every day for two years).
DeleteAnd now I’ve watched the videos! Agree with your assessment—double laid was better than single, single was better than what we were seeing. But could clearly see the behavior degrading a hair on the single laid—& at least once he considered going directly to source and chose not to👏👏👏. But we want to avoid that conflict! Well done!
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