First at Home Track!

Today was supposed to be our first at home track! Well it rained all day! Then about dinner time it finally cleared up! Well Erik has been sick the past few days so I didn't want to have him outside in the rain to do a track and now it's dark!

Since it turned into a nice night Jerry was like lets do a practice track! I was like it's dark! He said lets do it anyway! So off Erik and him went! They walked to the end of my drive way turned to the right and then walked to the turning point of my parents driveway! I was so nervous! I got all of Blue's tracking stuff and we went outside! I was talking Blue up while I was hooking him up then I told him to track! He was so excited for a few seconds that he just ran in a circle around me but then when I told him to track again off he went!

Blue booked it to the end of my drive way and made the right turn about 1/2 way up my parents driveway he lost the scent for a second! Now mind you it is pitch black out here! There is no street lights, we live on 11 acres and the sky is cloudy so there is no moonlight, Oh and Blue is black! So I cannot see him at all when he is about at the 1/2 length of the lead. I feel him slack up so I stop he sniffs around takes off towards the woods, hits the end but does not pull me, then he gets back on the drive way and still isn't committed then he takes off again pulling me the whole way and goes straight to Erik and Jerry!

We are so excited! He did an amazing job and in the dark no less! Our first at home track was successful!