Thank goodness it’s the shortest day of the year and they will start getting longer from here on out. I only took Cheeky out today because I knew it was going to get dark before we got done if I brought Fanny or Sizzle. It was 39° but felt like 36° and 4:40 pm when I laid her tracks between the Battlefield Green community center and shops on 360 by the Valero. I laid three tracks 30/40/50 scuff steps with food every two steps. Cheeky did a fantastic job using her nose tonight and laid down super fast when she got to the gloves. She loves this! She got distracted a couple times by the traffic noise on 360, but got right back to work.
I put in a track at the Battlefield Green Community Center near a line of trees. It was overcast and 63°F. The track was 80 scuff steps, left turn and second leg was 60 scuff steps. Cheeky was mostly happy and tracked well, but after the turn she really wanted to go backwards. I stood still and waited for her to decide to go forward. She was pretty determined. She seemed anxious either because it was getting dark or because there were dogs barking nearby. At one point before the turn I made the mistake of correcting her for sniffing some trash. I don't know if that caused some of her anxiety too. Eventually she did decide to move forward and did well on the remainder of the track. The video is below. You'll see her off screen for quite a while after the turn and that's the point where she was trying to pull me backwards.
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