So proud of the most annoying lurcher in the world ❤️❤️

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Millie had scent work training session #3 this evening - I had quite low expectations because I’d hardly practiced since last week and I realise that you don’t get results without putting the work in! But I knew the session would do her good so went along anyway.

She was fantastic, I was so proud and delighted with her! She has really got the idea of the scent of cloves and is solid to that scent now. She was consistent throughout the session and for the final couple of finds she waited by the scent pot for me to come up and reward her instead of flitting off like a butterfly ?

I couldn’t be more pleased, we are having so much fun ???

and the best outcome of all of course.... a tired lurcher.....

 

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Aw bless her - she looks thoroughly exhausted ?

 

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Aw bless her - she looks thoroughly exhausted ?

I have to say she got home from training and promptly had 20 minutes playing growly games hurtling around the garden attacking Ace greyhound (who is double her size) ???

On top of their usual walk this morning.....

It takes a lot to wear her out ?

 

[Mrs. Jingle]

I have to say she got home from training and promptly had 20 minutes playing growly games hurtling around the garden attacking Ace greyhound (who is double her size) ???

But she HAD to tell Ace all about it and share how absolutely marvelous she was and best in the class etc. etc.

 

[FinnishLapphund]

She looks very happy, and content with herself!
And that armchair looks so comfortable, as if it had been designed to be a dog bed.

However, even though I realise that waiting by the scent pot for you to reward her is what is the desired behaviour, when I imagine seeing her flittering off like a butterfly full of joy for having found the pot "of gold", it sounds absolutely adorable. Although the adorableness factor might be affected by that it isn't one of my bitches that is doing it, when I'm trying to train her.

 

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That’s one of the reasons why I’ve already really gelled with our trainer FL - we are training 1-2-1 in a paddock of about 1/2 acre with wild rabbits, plenty of birds, the occasional visiting deer and horses next door! But my trainer is pragmatic when Millie gets distracted (which she inevitably does several times each session!) as we agree that dogs are not robots nor would we want them to be, and sometimes they express themselves ? Which in Millie’s case, as a fast prey-fixated lurcher, still means going off to chase things at the moment whilst she is learning ???

She will get there, she will learn and she will become more ‘professional’ as she is so darn quick to learn, but I wouldn’t want to squash her natural instinct either ?

 

[FinnishLapphund]

Sounds like you've found a trainer worth their weight in gold.


**Scent of cloves - scent of cloves - scent of cloves - woohoo rabbit here I come...

 

[BBP]

I have to say she got home from training and promptly had 20 minutes playing growly games hurtling around the garden attacking Ace greyhound (who is double her size) ???

On top of their usual walk this morning.....

It takes a lot to wear her out ?

This sounds like mine, he has to have a mad half hour every time he gets back from a walk. After that he’s happy to snooze.

 

[MrsMozartleto]

Aw. Clever lass.

 

[palo1]

This sounds so brilliant Squee!!! Clever, clever Millie and lucky dog to have an owner who has found her such a fun hobby