The first few tries of this routine... it takes us a bit to get you in the rhythm of what I wanted. We started with three bags. 1 and 2 were food, 3 was odor. If you compare this to his first couple of runs of the day - the speed/enthusiasm is up quite a bit.
Clearly I have to learn to give better instructions. Even so, note Tucker had you moving at a trot at the beginning of this segment.
This time we got the rhythm and instructions right and he paid hardly any attention to the food distractions and was fast going right to odor. Note, you are no longer having to pull him past food... very nice...
This clip is where we started to mix it up a bit. We had three food distraction bags, followed by one blank and the last was odor. It was clear that he was "getting it" and realizing that there was no point to stop for food and even that fast he knew the blank wasn't worth checking. Nice enthusiasm.
This was the best. We pulled the switcheroo on him so now the order was three food distractions, odor and blank. He was clearly moving by the food distractions and headed for odor. Of course, he was cheating and going to the last bag due to pattern training, but that's fine. It means he was determined to get to odor because that's where the fun and pay is - bypassing food along the way. Yayyyy Tucker! Yes, he did pass the odor bag, but when he got to the end of the line he did not try to convince you the blank bag was it... and turned to find odor.
Exterior search - Good search. Not sure what you saw as an indication for the first hide, but 1:15 was good time, especially since he'd already covered some of the other area. 1:17 to the second hide, also good time. Actual time between the second hide and the last was 21 seconds... so he clearly had a good idea where it was and it was just down to the detailing. Overall a really nice search in 2:50...
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