Another session of K9 Kamp hosted by Peggy’s Pet Place, Slimdoggy, and To Dog with Love has come to an end. The challenge this session was to design your OWN version of K9 Kamp Doggy Hide and Seek. Make up a game that works for YOUR dog! For the next month, practice your challenge with your dog and then post photos, a video, or just your ‘diary’ on how Kamp went. Since Bailie and I are in Nose Work class I am using our latest Nose Work lessons for my K9 Kamp work.
Every class starts out with being kenneled. Nose Work is an individual sport, so we are always kenneled accept when it is our turn and we practice the same rules at home on our basement course. When we get to class (or in our basement) we put on our Nose Work uniforms (harnesses) and then go in our kennels to wait for our turn.
Remember that at class, no one peed on the floor, the wet spots are from wet shoes 🙂 Sometimes we run the course with our leashes and sometimes without. Either way, Mom is walking along with us and sometimes might need to guide us along a bit if we get stuck.
Looks like I found a treat! Notice I now have a new lead that matches my harness. It is light weight and ten feet long. I barely even know it is there. Bailie has a purple one to match her harness.
Mom had to work on leash control, staying in that yellow ring, and I was sniffin’ the air for the next treat!
Then I got back to some serious searching.
Bailie had an easy hide to find.
Then she had to find one with some obstacles…I call this a stretch long dog find! All the chairs and obstacles are to get us to be creative in how we get to a hide as well as to redirect scents in the air. This exercise was also working with Mom on leash control. She has to learn to just drop it in these situations to keep from getting all tangled.
Although Bailie and I are the same breed, we are each our own dog. Bailie has a much keener sense of smell than I do Mom says. We did some class videos last week of us each looking for the same hides. Notice that Bailie is pretty quick and to the point. Sometimes she is actually too fast. I take my time, check things out and eat my treats slowly too. We even worked the course in opposite directions. We both get the job done, just in a different manner. The third part of the video is me, with my Sony Action Cam, on our basement course. We have learned that we need to search the corners and walls of a room and not just the center, so these clips are from mainly corner searches. The first two parts of the video are unedited searches, my basement search had some parts cut out as I had many hides to find.
We still have one more lesson in Nose Work 1 (class got cancelled again because of a snowstorm) and class 2 starts next month when we will start working with odor. We are really excited to learn more and more about this fun sport! See if you have a Nose Work classes in your area! If you are in the Twin Cities, Active Dog Sports is a great place to take classes.
Good (nose) work Emma! You guys did great, even Mom.
Thanks so much for being a part of FitDog Friday and K9Kamp!
Thanks! Being scent hounds, it is what we were born to do, so we really love it and Mom loves doing it with us and seeing how good we are at it.
Emma, when I saw the preview on the first page of your blog I thought you and Bailie might have done something naughty and gone to jail! Do you think it’s hard to sit and wait in the kennel while your sister works, or are you okay with it? You’re both so good!
It is hard to wait but the hardest is to understand that my turn is over and I have to wait again. Bailie used to cry when she had to wait but now she knows the process too.
Great job you guys. Jack & Maggie approach our find the food game differently too – Maggie is like Bailie – zooming around finding the low hanging fruit and Jack is more careful and thorough.
My teacher makes fun of me because I take so long to eat a tiny treat too!
So much fun to watch you guys enjoying your class….and uses those talented noses of yours! 🙂
We have found our niche in life for sure!
Sniffingly good job we say. Have a fabulous Friday.
Best wishes Molly
Sniffin’ good time 😉
Mom would love for me to learn nose work! You guys are very lucky and seem to be doing great! Love Dolly
I’m sure they have classes around Chicago since it is a big city. You can start at any age, so give it a try!
You girls did a great job. You better thank Mom for being so great in setting up a scent track.
She is collecting all kinds of stuff for our basement area. It looks like a mess, but it is fun for us.
Great work for both Emma and Bailie! We enjoy it when Emma wears the SonyCam. I like my food but treats are still somewhat of a mystery to me. XOXO Sparkle the PBGV
I never was much for treats and was not real treat motivated but as I have gotten older that has changed a bit. You will learn to love treats in time.
Sparkle does NOT hesitate to think she wants human food! Not happening!! Betsy
Bailie eats everything that is not nailed down and was already counter surfing at three months. Good luck!
Great nose work!!! Loved watching the video of it to!
Thanks for sharing 🙂
((husky hugz))
frum our pack at love is being owned by a husky
Thanks. We think we are fun to watch in action.
You guys are becoming pros, you can see how eager you both are to start the search. As always, the victory tail wags after a successful find are my favorite.
Mom is afraid some day our tails are going to just fall off because we are always wagging!
Bravo! It was a pleasure to watch your video! No wonder that all people here love your breed for their excellent noses. Our neighbor said his gbgv never lost a trace.
It is pretty amazing my Mom always says! Glad you enjoyed the video.
Great job you two. It looks like you both learned a lot and are ready for the next class. (For myself, I can’t get over that you have nothing in your basement! lol)
We have a big house and there is no need to finish off the basement. Mom has an area where she stores stuff, but 3/4 of the basement is just empty, waiting and begging for us dogs to make a nose work course out of it!
You know, Mom has moved over the Atlantic twice in the past years, so that keeps her from accumulating stuff. No extra furniture or items we don’t need. Now that we have been back for almost seven years we are finally starting to get stuff again! Moving in general gets humans to sort out and get rid of stuff, but moving over the Atlantic is cause to really pare down!
You both did a fine job and I love the music you set this to, I was bopping along in my seat!! Your nosework is a tiny bit different than ours, but fun all the same. I have to remind myself to do this with Delilah, we’ve taken one and two in Nosework but there currently isn’t anymore classes to take.
I’m surprised there is nothing after the second class. There is the third basic class and then others after that depending on what direction you want to go in. We want to compete, so we are going to be taking lots of classes. Glad you were chair dancing to our video ;)…did you get a video of that?
I just nose yiu two will ace that class!
Nose kidding 😉
That looks like really fun!
It is tons of fun and wears us out too!
What a pawesome job and I always enjoy the videos!!!! Have a wonderful weekend dear Emma!!!!
Thanks, glad you like the video too ::)
Awesome job girls, loved the photos and video. Looks like something I have to get my gang on board with.
I bet they would enjoy it too!
You guys did great on this challenge! 🙂 Love watching you two sniff around for those treats! I guess a scent dogs nose really knows! XD
We were born for nose work!
Thank god no one had peed on the floor to distract you LoL.
Someone pooped one week, but we stayed on task!
You pups look so professional!
Terry from MatildasJourney.com
We want to compete when we get good enough, so we have to be quite serious about it.
We play hide n seek with the collies all the time, they LOVE it! 🙂
Yep, fun for everyone!
What a cool activity and you’re both so good at it. Loved watching your work!
Thanks, for us it is work but it is also fun!
Great job by all of you, Emma! I really enjoyed the video, actually seeing you at work and seeing how you do it. I love how your tails are wagging away, showing just how much fun you are having!
We really are well suited to this sport!
Good job! Mr. N has taken a few nosework classes and I’d like to take more with him but classes are so expensive compared to other sports. I don’t know why.
Ours aren’t much more than obedience classes but we have to pay twice for two 😉
That’s a really cool video Emma. I liked watching both of you guys do your nose work. Your basement looks really big too!
Lots of space to search in the basement since it is all unfinished and Mom only uses a small portion for storage.
Wow, those noses are busy! Great job girls <3
A couple of real nosy sisters 🙂
Hi Y’all!
Y’all are really, really great with your noses!
Y’all come by now!
Hawk aka BrownDog
French Scent Hounds…just what we do!
OH MY DOODLE – Are we impressed! That was doodle-tastic. You two could start a detective series..
Maybe a detective book? I will have to confer with my sister on that.
I love those lessons. And I’m sure it makes your bond stronger as well. Have a lovely weekend.
We love it and we work with Mom so we do more bonding.
That video sure was fun! Made me want to get out and search!!
Thanks, we sure love searching!
Wow you guys are so good! Can I ask what is your mum doing when she tries to get next to you when you have found it?
She tosses in a second treat to reward us for finding one.
That’s fab – double treats I love it!!
Have to really reward our behavior! When we move to odor in the next class then we will only get one treat.
I’d stay in the two treat class if I had a choice!! BOL
LOL! We think that too, but they guarantee us that odor is even more exciting and then we get to go outside and search, do vehicle searches, etc. I will keep you posted.