Ole gets the fastest time in class

Today started off pretty normal, walks doggy exercise and ball chasing, breakfast for all.... Then it was house work and organizing for our 8th and last class of the Nosework session. The next class doesn't start again until mid Oct so we will have a vacation of sorts for a couple of weeks. Tomorrow I have to show up for jury duty so I won't be able to get anything done all day and then I have a beginning obedience class to teach tomorrow night so it will be hectic. I had to get all matter of things done today.

20 minutes before I was going to put the dogs in the car and go and pick up Donna and Ginger, my neighbor a few doors down waved me over to her house. She had found an injured dove partially hidden next to her front gate and wanted to ask me (or so I thought ) what SHE should do about it. I told her to put it in a box and take it to Project Wildlife where they would take care of it. I have taken many injured wild birds and animals to them and I always give them a nice donation to help cover the costs. They are terrific and the money actually does go to help the animals, NO JIVE! My neighbor looked at me like I had holes in my head and said ," I can't do that, do you think I should put some water and bird seed next to it and see if it is still alive later on?" I said," well I would hope that if some one found any living creature injured by the side of the road that they would not just give them a sandwich and a glass of water and then leave them there suffering and in pain. I'm on my way to Los Angeles, so I don't have time to do this, can't you take it to Project Wild life? It's the opposite direction from where I have to go but it's only 10 minutes from here." She said," No I can't." No explanation. Now I knew the real reason she called me over. I didn't say another word, I was pissed. I got a small box from my garage, lined it with newspaper , gently placed the dove in the box and didn't look back. I piled everyone in the back of the car , put the dove in the box in the front seat and ambulanced it to Project Wildlife. They took it in and found it had a deep puncture wound in it's back like from a crow or hawk. I gave them a donation and then zoomed off to Donna's house . Everything worked out alright, but it just annoys me when people have that attitude about injured anything and foist the responsibility off on someone else. If it had been a dog or cat, would she have left it there suffering? I was happy to take care of the little bird but I will never really be much impressed with the so called niceness of my neighbor again. Nuff said on that!
In class we did a container search of 20 different types of containers, everything from shopping bags to suitcases, boxes, athletic gear bags soft and hard coolers, you name it . We were timed and Ginger came in first with a less than a minute find for two scents, Elmo had the 2nd fastest nose at an impressive 1 minute and 3 seconds. Monty, the Scotty came in 3nd at 1 minute 4 seconds so it was a close one. Gus the Tibetan Terrier was fastest at the vehicle search , & I can't remember who was fastest at the exterior search. It was the hardest as the find was a single Q-Tip scented with Birch that was wedged into a crack in the concrete in the parking lot and it was covered by what looked like a piece of random tape. Ole and Duncan ( a schnauzer), the two newest dogs to scent work had different areas to search than the the rest of the group as they are both still having their hides paired with treats. Ole beat Duncan in each contest, one was a container search and the other was an interior room search. Duncan thought he had won with his 9 second find in the containers, but Ole trumped him by finding it in only 8 seconds! Way to go Ole. Ole got a bag of treats as his prize and shared one with Duncan . Ole was strutting around and wanted to do more searches.but Alas, we were out of time and had to pack up and head home. No more driving to Tustin for a few weeks!