River and I are participating in a fall CWAGS scent league held at Anything Goes for Dogs in Marysville held in September and October.
Our September trial went fairly well. The first evening, she was way too excited to search during our Level 1. She mostly just ran around and alerted to 2 boxes no where near the scent. During a level 3 search she did a perfect alert but it wasn't there and when I told her "no" she bounded 3 times across the room and tackled a small object and looked at me like, "I was just teasing it's right here!", which it was. So she was quite playful that evening. We wound up with 1 Q at Level 1 and 2 at Level 3, which she really made me work for.
The second evening of scent league, we were doing Levels 1 and 3 again. River qualified in each round earning her Level 1 ACE Title! It's a small dog paw medal on a lanyard of black with hearts and stars. She was pretty calm. So calm in fact that she seemed pretty bored with the whole thing but she got into the swing of it.
One of her level 3 searches she completed in a really good time of 1:46. You get 4 minutes to find all 3 scents so her time was great! I think she took the same amount of time to find one scent on Level 1 so she was quick.
The October scent league was on Levels 2 and 4. River Q'd in 3 of the 4 searches and she got her Level 4 Title. We always have a good time during the scent trials and it's fun to watch other's dogs get their title or see who's finding scent the fastest.
Winter scent league will be in December and January.
Our September trial went fairly well. The first evening, she was way too excited to search during our Level 1. She mostly just ran around and alerted to 2 boxes no where near the scent. During a level 3 search she did a perfect alert but it wasn't there and when I told her "no" she bounded 3 times across the room and tackled a small object and looked at me like, "I was just teasing it's right here!", which it was. So she was quite playful that evening. We wound up with 1 Q at Level 1 and 2 at Level 3, which she really made me work for.
The second evening of scent league, we were doing Levels 1 and 3 again. River qualified in each round earning her Level 1 ACE Title! It's a small dog paw medal on a lanyard of black with hearts and stars. She was pretty calm. So calm in fact that she seemed pretty bored with the whole thing but she got into the swing of it.
One of her level 3 searches she completed in a really good time of 1:46. You get 4 minutes to find all 3 scents so her time was great! I think she took the same amount of time to find one scent on Level 1 so she was quick.
The October scent league was on Levels 2 and 4. River Q'd in 3 of the 4 searches and she got her Level 4 Title. We always have a good time during the scent trials and it's fun to watch other's dogs get their title or see who's finding scent the fastest.
Winter scent league will be in December and January.
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