Follow your nose

Okay Ginger and Kathy, stop laughing right now. Yes, I'm going to blog about tracking. No, I don't really know what I'm talking about. And, okay, yes, I am the person who really honestly does not like tracking.

For me, tracking is just almost as exciting as watching paint dry. Okay, running a track with my own dog is fun. But the whole planning, plotting, laying track, aging, flagging, etc. etc. is, well, boring as snot. And when you are getting together with your helpful friends and multiply all that planning, plotting, tracklaying, and aging by 4 or 5, well you're gonna be there awhile. I think the truth is I'm just too impatient for tracking.

Unfortunately my dogs like it. Zipper is especially good with his nose. Which just sucks because frankly, I'd rather pretend this one dog sport didn't exist.

Every once in awhile Ginger helps me get re-enthused about the sport (which means I move from 'Oh my God please don't make me do this' to 'Oh....All right....I'll meet you there' [martyred sigh]). Hence, you get to see pictures of Zipper tracking hard surface. I have it on good authority (i.e., not my own) that tracking hard surface is the most difficult kind because scent spreads and dissipates rather than pooling and settling in as it does in grass.

Zipper, he thinks it's pretty darn easy, especially when there are shreds of turkey to hunt. Darn it Zipper, for once can't you be bad at something so I can weasel out?

--Robin