25/09/2025
We’ve had beautiful late September weather this week so it was another lovely week of Hooping and sniffing outside at Racingredd.
The Scentwork groups were pushed with very environmental searches. On Tuesday we searched two pieces of farm equipment which is positioned at the entrance to a really well used dog walking track. The dogs all did so well finding clove and gun oil with so many other smells on offer!
Wednesday and Thursday groups worked in one of the goat shelters (the goats were in the field) as you can imagine there were plenty of distractions including dried goat poo 💩 hay,tree branches,old food bins and much more.
Fantastic work everyone.
The hoopers groups all worked on a snail shaped course which we ran in both directions. Anti clockwise flowed well,moving from a smaller circle to a larger one and giving the dogs a nice straight line to drive on to the finish.
Clockwise the course had the challenge of going through a box of hoops to reach the finish. So lots of work on straight line drives through the equipment.
The beginner class worked the course in sections,we also continued on their circle work.
All of the dogs were great,experienced and beginners.
Fix and Eleven are playing on the bed whilst I am trying to type this,apparently I’m not paying them enough attention so here’s a few pictures of the action and I’ll bid you goodnight.
