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bad thing. She actually air scents so runs   wouldn’t be able
          with her nose in the air to pinpoint where  to pick lessons up
          the rats are. You see I had watched other   again until after
          handlers leading their dogs around and   Christmas. In
          saying “look here, look here, how about   the meantime, I
          here…” etc. Enough of them were doing   had another trial
          that that I thought that maybe I was   in Louisville. At
          doing it wrong.                       the Saturday trial
            It turns out that the way we work,   she qualified in
          which is for me to let Marilyn hunt and   Senior for both
          follow her is much more productive. I   of her runs and
          mainly just need to make sure that she   finished her Senior
          covers everything, even if she doesn’t   title (RATS) with
          stop and check.                       one Q to spare.
                                                I moved her up
            The other thing we determined is that   and even though
          I was right about her blowing me off on   I didn’t think we
          the tunnel. She wanted to hunt rats and   were ready for
          didn’t see the point in doing the tunnel   Master, jumped
          so while I was able to get her through it,   in. We qualified
          it usually wasn’t until she had found all or   the first trial and
          at least most of the rats. So we came up   had the first of five
          with a plan to work on that.
                                                qualifying runs
            Thirty minutes flew by but in the   required for the
          process I’d learned a lot and we had a   Master Level.
          plan for future lessons. However, the   Next time: Final
          instructor was getting ready to go out   installment – Master and beyond.
          of town for an extended period and





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