All Sniffed Out

Saturday – Excellent Exterior, Advanced working 1st overall and high in trial

This weekend we participated in our final sporting detection trial for 2018.  Chinook Dog Centre put on a really amazing event and it was their very first trial.  Big congratulations to Joanne and Brandy-Lee.  The timing of runs was fantastic, we were fed really well and we even finished early on Sunday.

On Saturday Brodie had a very busy day trialing at 3 different levels.  Normally I would never do that but at the last minute we decided to pull Spirit’s entry because she just didn’t want to play scent games at the last trial and I didn’t think it was fair to force her to do it again (will be play over the winter to find out if she is still interested in Scenting or if it is time to retire).  You can only get a refund for medical reasons so we substituted Brodie in for her events.  He qualified in Excellent Working Exteriors and finished in 3rd place.  He rocked Advanced working qualifying in all 3 components with a 1st in Interiors, 2nd in Containers and 2nd in Exteriors.  He finished first overall in Advanced Working and we also won high in trial and got a basket full of goodies.  He was fantastic at the Elite level.  We qualified in containers and exteriors and got to the final room in our interior search and he alerted at the top of a fire extinguisher but the hide was 2 inches higher in the light switch.  So close.  It was a heart breaker.

Sunday – Advanced working 1st overall and high in trial

On Sunday he only ran in Excellent and Advanced.  We were both tired, he was a little crazy running all over the place and then decided to play soccer with the containers instead of searching them.  Needless to say we NQ’d.  He managed to slow down a little bit for the Advanced searches.  We qualified in all 3 components with a 3rd in Interiors, 1st in Containers and 1st in Exteriors.  Once again we finished first overall, won high in trial again and got a second basket full of goodies.   So proud of my little man.  If we had managed to get just one Excellent Interior qualifier this weekend we would have earned our SD-MACH (Master Champion).  On the positive side, we have something to look forward to next year.

Big thanks to Judges Mary-Ann Warren and Doug Wilson