From 0 to 120 yards in 2 minutes flat

Well, maybe it took Ian longer than 2 minutes to get down that 120 yard track because I gave him an article halfway down, but it felt like only 2 minutes! Wow, he's going to be a great tracking dog. I ran him at 25 minutes ... well, it was 25 minutes when I started to get the stuff out of the van, so by the time I got his tracking harness on, I got cookies in my apron and we got to the track, it was probably a full 30 minute track. Ian just did a great job. 

I think I'm going to have to make him really honest to the line of the track. I noticed tonight he'll go off of it 10 ft., and I'm still walking with him. I started making myself stop when he was 2 ft. off of it and he quickly learned to get back on his track. Janet was right that I needed to do more straight line confidence building tracks before trying turns. I think I'll just do more of these and learn how to read him and build up some age for the next few weeks. 

I saw Sheree this week, and I told her I was tracking Ian and her reaction was, "IAN?!? You're tracking IAN?!?!" I laughed and said he loves it and told her what a natural he was at it. I can see me having fun with him for a while and even doing TDX and possibly VST (although I'm not sure how he'll do with the added people in a VST ... well we have a lot of time before we have to worry about that!).