Fozzie has been training for over a year. He is doing quite well. I have not kept up with his training log, as I've been so busy. I think Fozzie could be ready for certification soon, so I want to start documenting his training again.
Today he found Mazzy. Mazzy is a repeat customer. She was lost shortly after she arrived in Seattle. It took about a week to find her that first time. Her owner put a GPS collar on her. She was very careful with Mazzy, but on one short trip from the car to the door of the doggie daycare, the leash was attached to Mazzy's collar, and Mazzy backed out of her collar for an unknown reason. Mazzy ran off and left her GPS unit behind. We caught her in a humane trap about a week later. Mazzy looks good these days. She is still a bit skittish, but much more bonded to her people than she was.
This trail was about 24 hours old, about 1.25 miles long, on mostly paved surfaces. It had rained about an inch in the 24 hours between the trail being laid and us following it. The route was known to me, so I could praise Fozzie for choosing the right course or anchor him if he went too far astray. The weather conditions were about ideal. Fozzie just took a quick sniff of the scent article and started right on the trail. He wove in and out of yards. Afterward, Tracy told me that Mazzy had dipped into many yards along the way. Fozzie didn't miss any turns. He didn't pull as hard as Kelsy can sometimes, but he worked diligently on the scent trail. I only had to tell him to leave it a couple of times when he spent a little too long checking out irrelevant scents. When he found Mazzy, she was like, "Who the heck are you?" I gave Fozzie his cheese, and a puppy happened along about that time, so he got to play, as a reward, too. As usual, Fozzie seemed to enjoy the game.
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