River and I attended a C-WAGS Scent Trial on April 13 and April 20, at Anything Goes for Dogs in Marysville, Ohio.
Both nights, there were 2 trials at levels 3 & 4 each. I signed River up for level 4 only but I wound up signing up for one level 3 trial each night.
On April 13, she got 1 Q at level 3 and 1 at level 4. She did really well the first level 3 search but the first level 4 search, she got 3 of the 4 scents. I think she got frustrated because she just started batting around the boxes and alerting when the scent wasn't there but she got one of the scents that was about 3 feet off the ground. The second search she did really well but a train came through the area and she was a bit nervous and stopped searching. I finally got her searching again and she found the last scent.
The Level 4 searches were fairly hard. A lot of the shorter dogs had never scented anything 3 feet in the air before but that height is within the rules.
On April 20, River was entered in 1 level 3 search and 2 level 4 searches. This was just a bad night all around. She didn't Q in any of them. She got 2 scents on the level 3 search and 3 scents on the level 4's. The room was really warm and humid feeling and I think that played a big factor in how the scent was traveling or simply not traveling. River does not methodically search each item on the floor. She simply roams around and catches scent that way and follows it back or she may get her nose close enough and catches scent. This time, it appeared she needed to get her nose really, really close in order to get the scent and she simply wasn't doing that.
Oh well. There will be another scent league in June and July.
Both nights, there were 2 trials at levels 3 & 4 each. I signed River up for level 4 only but I wound up signing up for one level 3 trial each night.
On April 13, she got 1 Q at level 3 and 1 at level 4. She did really well the first level 3 search but the first level 4 search, she got 3 of the 4 scents. I think she got frustrated because she just started batting around the boxes and alerting when the scent wasn't there but she got one of the scents that was about 3 feet off the ground. The second search she did really well but a train came through the area and she was a bit nervous and stopped searching. I finally got her searching again and she found the last scent.
The Level 4 searches were fairly hard. A lot of the shorter dogs had never scented anything 3 feet in the air before but that height is within the rules.
On April 20, River was entered in 1 level 3 search and 2 level 4 searches. This was just a bad night all around. She didn't Q in any of them. She got 2 scents on the level 3 search and 3 scents on the level 4's. The room was really warm and humid feeling and I think that played a big factor in how the scent was traveling or simply not traveling. River does not methodically search each item on the floor. She simply roams around and catches scent that way and follows it back or she may get her nose close enough and catches scent. This time, it appeared she needed to get her nose really, really close in order to get the scent and she simply wasn't doing that.
Oh well. There will be another scent league in June and July.
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