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.