River and I participated in our second barn hunt trial on October 31 and November 1 at Columbus All Breed. She seemed to really enjoy the barn hunt in Marysville at Anything Goes for Dogs and this one was no different.
We entered at the Novice level and after 1 successful rat hunt, we moved up to Open. We had a time of 1:27 for our 3rd leg of the Novice title. Not bad at all.
The second trial we moved up to Open and it's basically the same as Novice but you find 2 rats instead of 1. River searched the area really well but unfortunately, she only found 1 rat at the 2:30 mark which means we were out of time. So no ribbon for that run but that's okay. She was doing well searching everything but she just didn't hit on the right area.
On Sunday, November 1, we entered into 2 trials. Both were at the Open level. River is used to alerting to a scent when she's on the ground level. Here she has to try to alert to the rat when she's balancing on a wiggly straw bale up against a wall and there's a rat tube on there with her. She's not used to it, so she would sniff the tub and then jump down. Well, I wasn't getting that there was a rat there so I had her check it again but she wouldn't jump up all the way. She tilted her nose upward and that was about it. This happened to us twice. But I called the rat tube even though I wasn't exactly sure but it was right. Out of 2:30 seconds River had a search of 2:27 and 2:29 so we squeaked by literally by a few seconds but we qualified. I think the Judge was more nervous than I was. I asked the Judge when she was awarding ribbons, you know after she pointed out our fantastically close time to everyone in the room, "So the goal isn't to get as close to 2:30 as possible?" and we all had a good laugh.
All in all a fun rat filled weekend.
We entered at the Novice level and after 1 successful rat hunt, we moved up to Open. We had a time of 1:27 for our 3rd leg of the Novice title. Not bad at all.
The second trial we moved up to Open and it's basically the same as Novice but you find 2 rats instead of 1. River searched the area really well but unfortunately, she only found 1 rat at the 2:30 mark which means we were out of time. So no ribbon for that run but that's okay. She was doing well searching everything but she just didn't hit on the right area.
On Sunday, November 1, we entered into 2 trials. Both were at the Open level. River is used to alerting to a scent when she's on the ground level. Here she has to try to alert to the rat when she's balancing on a wiggly straw bale up against a wall and there's a rat tube on there with her. She's not used to it, so she would sniff the tub and then jump down. Well, I wasn't getting that there was a rat there so I had her check it again but she wouldn't jump up all the way. She tilted her nose upward and that was about it. This happened to us twice. But I called the rat tube even though I wasn't exactly sure but it was right. Out of 2:30 seconds River had a search of 2:27 and 2:29 so we squeaked by literally by a few seconds but we qualified. I think the Judge was more nervous than I was. I asked the Judge when she was awarding ribbons, you know after she pointed out our fantastically close time to everyone in the room, "So the goal isn't to get as close to 2:30 as possible?" and we all had a good laugh.
All in all a fun rat filled weekend.
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