for 25 Feb Nimrod and I ran a 200 yard two right turns track with a bag drag and food drop every ten yards. I was payiing particular attention to my line handling and hoping to build Nimrod's confidence. We were tracking at a fairly busy park so the distractions abounded. I didn't feel Nimrod was enjoying himself so much as going through the motions. Maybe thinking that any one of the many distractions would be far more rewarding than rotisserie chicken. I'm not sure. We'll track again today, and I'll use sausage as my food drop.
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For 16 Feb: I laid a 2- 90 degree L turn track with the first and third legs 100 yrds and the middle leg 50 yrds. I kept the food drop at 15 steps but continued to bag drag. We began to track. Nimrod had increasing difficulty with finding the scent. Winds were gusting at 40-50 MPH and the field was more or less a continuous inch of standing water. It didn't help that Nimrod doesn't like to get his feet wet. I think Nimrod started sight tracking, diving at every small pale object in his path hoping for chicken. On the last leg, he looked at me and more or less shrugged. I threw chicken over his head, clipped him into his collar and told him he was a good boy. It was just two hard.
