Advanced rubble title completes triple third level search titles

Many challenge with COVID in making this trial come together but we were blessed with gorgeous weather.  Huge thank you to my club RH K9 Rangers and judge Stephanie Dunion.

This is Kludde's 26th working title 38th total titles.

First GSP tracked mantrail

Ingrid has been kind enough to lay tracks for me, hide in rubble for me, hide in the woods for me, and now she is wearing a tracker.  Still learning the software but red is Ingrid and purple is Kludde.  Aged over an hour .4 miles.  Cool calm night.

Supporting South Dakota SAR team

 Kludde is supporting the Prairie Dog K9 SAR team.

Kludde is supporting one cool kid

 

Kludde sent this painting to Zechariah.  Find out more about his mission here - https://running4heroes.org/

Week of mantrailing

Progressing on our mantrailing scent discrimination at Old Dominion.   Running trails in the woods and the city.  He still wants to find both people from a split trial but he is improving. 

The city library did a promo on us.

RGS sponsored hunt

Kludde was a good sport as always although not super excited for feathers in his mouth. 

Duck search fun

They say it is the hardest part of the utility NAVDHA test so I thought I'd learn how to train it using my brindle companion.  He loves searching, water, and retrieving so I knew the challenge of him never having an animal in his mouth before wouldn't be a problem.  

More than 100 degree rubble work

Kludde didn't lose any of his rubble skills during nine months off. The high heat and humidity didn't slow him down either.

25th working title 37th total titles

Spend spring training for antler hunting and summer trialing. Finished the title with a respectable time (under 5 min). Unlike the other shed trials there was tons of peeing on the course, not by him, one of the pee-ers was a sexy bitch so he was a little distracted.   

Cool for this time there was a wide variety of dog breeds including a 22lb Boykin who fetched the big antlers too so that was nice to see. 

My first hunting title. 

No snakes but also no wind

Another impressive pass today in rough conditions.

Kansas summer show down fun

Our second shed event was fun and had a snake scare.  The host club was great.  At lunch we played a mule deer,  moose paddle,  elk antler fetch challenge.

Tracking title in the summer

Big thank you to Amanda Hoskinson the judge, Rukmalie Jayakody the track layer, and Alexandria Schutzund the host club.

Doing an FH in Virginia in the summer is a bit silly but it was a beautiful day and he tracked well.

Second shed day

Not as nice of a run (conditions rough) and I made two handling errors but... second fastest dog.

Played an elk antler fetch challenge game.

First shed event

Thank you to Show Me shed dogs and Jason MacPherson. Enjoyed our first shed competition and had third shortest time.

Courses were in the woods which was nice for the shade but there was little wind.

Almost felt like we were staying at the Peabody.

Supporting retired police dogs in Indiana

Central Indiana K9 Association (cik9.org) does great work supporting retired police dogs in central Indiana.
Kludde supported one of their fundraisers with a painting.

Urban track near Neptune's crash

Lot's of contamination on the track on this warm winter holiday day.

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