JamieHalverson
Well-Known Member
So Yogi and I had our first Nosework trial today... did not go so hot.We entered an elements specialty trial. There are four elements in Nosework - containers, interiors, exteriors and vehicles. Our trial was containers. There are four searches total, 4/4 earns a title, 3/4 is a leg. Yogi and I got 1/4 searches. So title wise, obviously we were not very successful!Yogi was so much more interested in trying to meet everyone at the search than he was in searching containers... We were successful in the very first search, then when we went to the second search I was overly confident and called it too soon. After that, he was totally off his game, I swear, he was like "boxes, what boxes? There's PEOPLE!!!!" The judge even chuckled at him. Then when I got him searching again he false alerted multple times, stepped on boxes, pawed and flipped over boxes, he was kind of a disaster. But a friendly, clownish, funny disaster, lol! He just does not have a strong work ethic, for him everything is just fun or it's not worth doing.We DID have fun, it was not a total failure as there is value and something to learn from every search. I REALLY learned where we need to go back and focus in our training for next time!