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I’m a retired English instructor, now devoted full-time to training, showing and enjoying my spaniels in many sports.
I’m an English college instructor by trade, a dog trainer by vocation. And lifelong baseball fan.

Back to tracking again!

We’ve been tracking twice a week all summer, and Robbie is starting to show improvement on his turns, although his start is still a work in progress.  Meanwhile Brian is running tracks of about 125-150 yards with one turn.  He loves it and shows a lot of drive!  Thanks to my tracking partner Martha for taking these great pictures of the boys.

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Robbie’s first leg of his track
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Approaching a corner, marked by the orange flag
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We made it around the corner! Second leg.
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Brian at the startline.
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He’s off!  I’ve started extending his line a bit more.
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After his corner.

I’m so enjoying this process of encouraging the boys’ ability to follow scent.  As my tracking instructor says, “Let the track be the teacher.”  More adventures in this wonderful sport to follow!

If this sport interests you, note that an exceptional online dog training school, Fenzi Academy of Dog Sports, provides tracking lessons with Lucy Newton, who works with her dogs in SAR, IPO and AKC tracking.  I’ve never had consistent, high quality tracking instruction before and very excited about pursuing this sport more.

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