Feeling like a Champion!

Oh oooh today is my blipday! 9 years of blipping! No gaps! Woooohoooo thank you everyone for following my life and adventures with the boys <3

Sunday is a day of rest and also a training free day for the boys. 

So no dog dancing training - instead we had some Nose Work fun.

I put up 12 Nose Work* hides before our walk and when we came back from the walk, I let the boys search for them. 

It was not difficult hides and the boys had all their food and a ball as reward, so it was really a motivational task. One of my jobs as handler is to make the boys feel like World Champions. If you feel that you are good at something, you are often more happy to do it. This goes for the dogs too. 

So today was all about making the boys feel like champions!

We finished with another walk.

My picture today is Gollum with his nose pointed towards the hide, which has been marked with a red circle. 

See you tomorrow
Emmy and the Hazyland Boys

*) Nose Work is a dog sport created to mimic professional detection dog tasks. The dogs must find a hidden target odor and alert the handler.