Just a brief training session today with my training partner, Pam. Juno first watched Pam run into the bark box and close the door. I released her, told her to search and she went out enthusiastically. I pulled her back, after her reward from Pam and sent her again. Unfortunately, I moved and that distracted her. She is more ADD than I am! Once her attention strayed, we couldn't get her back on track. I finally pulled her back and restarted her. good job the second time around.

We then worked Pam's #2 dog, TC. She seems to be having some issues moving around on the wooden pallets. So, we did several problems with her. I hid under the pallets and made her walk over them to find me. It takes a lot of encouragement from the victim to make the dog comfortable enough to come up and get the reward.

Rascal got a shot just because he was feeling left out. He cheated and followed my track instead of searching the air for scent. I guessed that he would and laid a track all over the pile after helping Pam into her hiding hole. But, when that didn't work, he did it right and found her with no problem.

Juno got a second run. This was her first "cold start" at the box. She needs to learn that when she sees this box or a barrel with a lid, that she should run up to it, sniff for the victim and if he's there, bark. She ran in with no problem! Good girl. I'll repeat today's exercised again next training to reinforce what she learned today. If all goes well, the following training session she will run the bark box cold her very first run out of the car.