This post is for tracking on January 10th, 12th and 14th.

I wanted to get some tracking in before the snow on January 10th. I went around to some of the school yards we haunt but there were large numbers of staff and students hanging around after hours. Finally, I chose Carver Acadamy as the most deserted. It's not my favorite the field is small and trashy. The light was low due to the coming storm, and I had difficulty finding double line ups visible at 70 yards. I took normal steps with a FD every 4 steps. Straight line, no food drop. Tracking was uneventful except that apparently, I was tracking in a field adjacent to the school bus parking lot for all of Chesterfield County. As we tracked the busses came home to roost: they belched and groaned and squealed and beeped. Nimrod was distracted by this but got back working with a little food thrown on the track.

January 12: Tracking was uneventful except Nimrod was a little concerned with the sound of snow sliding off the school's metal roof. Food on the track got him working again. FD every four steps, normal steps about a foot apart.

January 14th: This one didn't happen. I laid the track FD every four steps. Nimrod was giving me LOS from the jump. At first, I thought it was men in the distance playing basketball. Tossing food on the track resulted in Nimrod eating the tossed food and giving me another LOS. Part was down the second track I realized Nimrod wasn't really smelling anything. Then with a lot of embarrassment that taking your dog in for a Bordetella vaccine and then trying to track with him was pretty oblivious to abilities. I unhooked him from the harness we had a pleasant walk to collect our flag.

Mary Ann, I'll post an article indication shortly.

  

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