Capella is officially in the window where she could come in season any day — or next week or next month. She has always been unpredictable with her cycles so it is hard to know but it could be soon.
And yes, she will be bred 🍀
That all makes it hard to plan anything and so Capella is on a hormone hiatus for now.
Miss Pozy is still recovering from surgery (meniscus) and so she is on limited activity.
That leaves the exterior decorator, Starry G, to pick up the training slack around here.
The pillows — I can’t explain this. She takes them off the deck furniture and arranges them around the yard. They are never chewed — just transported 🤷🏼♀️
Anyway, our summer plans are to get Starry ready for an August Variable Surface Tracking (VST) Test.
And by “our” I mean “my” but I like to pretend the plans are ours.
VST is HARD. It is the most challenging level of AKC tracking. To give you a sense of this kind of tracking — and the training required — I want to share today’s session.
This is the field:
Yep — there is no field.
There is some lawn involved in VST — “some” being the operative word — and the lawn is the easy peasy part so no need to spend too much time on that.
My plan today was one long straight leg, aged two hours, with two intermediate articles. I arrived before 6 a.m. to lay this track!
The track went straight from the flag, across the driveway and down that row between the cement parking thingees.
Trucks kept crossing the driveway — this track was at a high school that is being renovated.
All kinds of whacky things can happen on a VST test track. In Montana, there were sometimes bears at the test!
This is my favorite article ❤️
I like gnomes 🤷🏼♀️
This was an easy day, and Starry did great. Look at her right on track…
Seriously — isn’t it amazing what a dog can do?! They are magical.
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