Yesterday, we piled into the car and headed out on a family rat hunting excursion. Back in September, we all went to a trial together for one day, but we have never all gone to a practice together. Mom says it is a lot of work and wears her out having three of us to hide rats for. Nevertheless, she thought it would be fun, so off we went.
Olivia and Bailie are both in Senior which means they have to find four rats every search. Mom was very busy hiding four rats for them, then waiting for them to find them all, and repeating it again and again. In the above photo, Olivia found a rat, can you tell?
Even Bailie was excited to be along and to look for some rats. Mom is trying to decide if she wants to try taking Bailie to the upcoming trial or not. While she did some good searching, she didn’t have as much enthusiasm as we had hoped. Whether or not she comes with us for a day or not is still hanging in the air.
I was my usual busy self. Once I am let loose, I prance around and check every inch of the area looking for those rats. I also enjoy biting at the tubes when I find one with a rat. Being in masters means I have to find one to five rats, but we don’t know how many. Mom has to figure out when I have found them all.
Bailie decided to sit down in the midst of the straw bails. She is such a silly girl sometimes!
Mom was a bit worried about me because sometimes I like to find the rats and not tell her about them. I did this a few times. She said that is a bad thing because we are a team. We will see how I feel when we are at the trial. Sometimes trials make for better hunting than practice.
Finally, we leave you with Olivia on top of all the bales looking out over the bin that has the rats in it. She knows where the rats are! She loves to air scent, as you can tell. We’re thankful we get to practice our sports even with all the pandemic stuff going on. It was a super fun time, and we managed to wear Mom out for a change!
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I think I would be somewhat like Bailie as in not very interested or motivated. we have these white birds that sometimes visit our yard and I chase them, but that is the extent of my hunting. Baby Puffin would be much more interested. XOXO, Sparkle
Bailie is a huge hunter, but these rats are in tubes so she can’t get her teeth into them, so it isn’t as fun for her.
It’s great that you had a family day.
It was fun, but we did have to wait a long time for our turns. Usually we only go alone or with two of us.
You are all so precious and it’s good that mom let’s you have such wonderful experiences. Well done.
Have a fabulous Thankful Thursday. ♥
Thank you. A family hunting outing was fun.
wow wow wow… we LOVE!!! this events… the mama said she will organize one here… but we are not sure about that… bet that’s something for a mischief moanday post LOL
Oh you boys in the rat ring would be a post of mischief any day. We have a friend who would jump over the fence and run for the rat bucket. He is no longer doing the sport.
What a great day you all had, you both are very skilled and very cute pups!
Thank you. We use our noses to hunt pretty well.
That looks like a fun time and I’m glad you got to get some practice in! Thanks for joining our Thankful Thursday Blog Hop!
It is super fun climbing all over and getting so many good smells.
It’s always fun to spend some family time together…especially when you can wear your Mama out!
She is hard to wear down, but she was pretty tired out after that hour of non stop ratting. It was a good thing, though.
That’s so cool you are able to rent a place for practice!! GoTeam GBGV!
You can also rent the pool for dock diving, but we don’t like to do that sport.
Great photos and looks like all had fun!
We had a blast, but Mom only had her phone for photos, so they are not very sharp with us moving all the time.
It looks like you were all enjoying yourselves.
We had a real nice time working on our hunting skills.
This just looks like such a blast to me. I love the photo of you AireSniffing, Olivia!
I love to air scent. Even hides that are low, I usually start tracing from up high.