Justice Training in Nosework
10-25-25

All the previous nosework training photos have been taken when my friend, Denise, and I trained together.  Denise went to visit her siblings in mid-July, only to have her sister become seriously ill.  As of November, Denise is still in Minnesota caring for her sister.  I continued training a day a week, though it’s sure not much fun by myself.

One of our teenaged club members, Sera, told me at our October trial that she continued to train her dog but was intimidated.  I invited her to come train with me and I’d help her practice how she would handle her dog in competition and develop a routine that would give her confidence to enter next year’s trials.  I took photos of her and her dog working at one session.  The next weekend, she took photos of my dogs working, with her cell phone.

Sera got some fun photos, a bunch of which captured some fascinating light as the sun broke through heavy clouds.

We set two separate search areas.  All the dogs do search 1, then we move to search 2.  You can usually tell the end of one search if you see some ball retrieving.  The start of the dog’s second turn is indicated by practicing an indication on a box as a “warm up,” putting on the harness and/or going through the two plastic cones that in a trial are used to start timing the search.

See Spirit training on 10/25/25
See Hopeful training on 10/25/25
See a fuller explanation of this year’s training and links to all the dogs’ training photos
See photos of the Craftco Metalworks storage yard where we train
See An Illustrated Explanation of Nosework for Those Unfamiliar with It