Olivia and I had a weekend of sniffin’ fun at Phillippo Scout Camp last weekend. Olivia had two trials which totaled eight searches on Saturday and I had four searches on Sunday. Mom volunteered Sunday morning. I was sniffing for my L1E, Level One Exterior Title. It is the lowest level so only one fairly easy hide in each search. Sometimes it is nice to have the pressure off and do some simple sniffing. I was successful and found all four hides earning my L1E Title. I’m not known for speed but I did place second in my last search finding the hide in 0:15:56. Mom didn’t video my searches as they are really fast and not all that interesting.
Now I have all four of my Level One Element Titles, Interiors, Exteriors, Containers, and Vehicles. I have two of the four Level Two, and One Level Three Titles. Completing the rest of Level Two and Three Elements is something to work on going forward.
Olivia had an ELT-P trial on Saturday morning and an L3E in the afternoon. The L3E was a disaster because Mom lost her mind and made two stupid mistakes out of nervousness and ruined the chance for a title. Olivia found all the hides but Mom negated that with her craziness. She feels bad about it. Overall, Olivia found seventeen of the eighteen hides from both trials which was real nice. The ELT-P was super fun and not stressful.
The video is one of Olivia’s ELT-P searches, the second search of the day. She and Mom had so much fun and Olivia earned first place in that search. It is in the same place where she earned her AKC Detective Title three years ago. I think you’ll enjoy watching her work. You’ll see she says “here” to Olivia when Olivia tries to leave the room. This is her new command so when Olivia is off leash and goes out of bounds, she knows to turn around and head back into the correct area. So far it is really working well.
Our GoPro is not being nice lately. At Olivia’s Summit Trial it stopped working and Mom worked for a long time one day to get it to charge. Now as you will see in this video, it shakes randomly. Nevertheless, it is still a fun video where Olivia finds four hides in well under a minute. We are happy because we both love sniffing!
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Fellowship Hall had lots of places for hides and you found them all! Well done, Olivia, and congratulations to you too, Nelson! You have quite the collection of beautiful ribbons and a very fancy certificate!
Mom frames the certificates and then we hang our ribbons from that so everything is organized on our walls of fame in the office 😉
Wow, what a Grand weekend for all of you!
It was a lot of fun sniffing.
WOW, you were moving through those hides so quickly!!!
I love speed searches and I am good at them. It’s no wonder I was first place in that search.
Sounds like a fun weekend, even if your Mom had a hiccup or two. Olivia, you are a sniffing machine, and we love watching you work!!
xoxo,
Rosy & Sunny
I’m really serious about my sniffing but Mom has to get her nerves under control when she is under pressure as she turns into a mess.
Your mom needs to practice more. It seems she is the one causing the problems.
She has been pretty good but nerves got the best of her and messed everything up. I did perfect but it is a team thing.
Four hides in under a minute? Wow. I’m impressed. Sorry about the GoPro. Frustrating.
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Have a fabulous Happy Tuesday. Scritches to the pups and a hug to mom. ♥
Mom fights with it all the time but we are not sure what is wrong with it. We’ll use it some more and see if it fixes itself or we need a new one.
Congrats to Olivia and Nelson ~ wow! ~ great work ~ I would get nervous too ~ Hugs,
an artist reflects
Mom normally isn’t nervous with me because she knows she can trust me but we had to be perfect and her nerves took over. She is still mad and disappointed in herself. We had a great morning, though.
Olivia well done!!!!!!!! OMDs I was hoping one of the scents might include a box of Mint Scout Cookies
Hugs cecilia
Nope, just birch, anise or clove. The yums are not the hide, they are what Mom has in the pouch and it was beef and chicken organ meatballs. They are to drool for!
You two have super noses and so much fun. Great job!
We always have sniffing fun as we were born to be sniffers.
Way to rack up the titles and wins, guys!
We do our best and enjoy ourselves doing it.