We have found that if we let Raezor figure out pieces of the puzzle called Search Dog, it sticks better for her.
It was an interesting set of problems because she was plagued by visuals that disturbed her. Downed trees that took on the shapes of different kinds of boogey men were really bothersome to her. It was fantastic to watch her body language flip back and for from "I have scent" to "CRAP!! What the sam hill is THAT thing" and back to "I have scent" again. We let her work it.... let her take her baby steps forward until she got close enough that the scent of her subject overwhelmed whatever fear she had of the trees misshapen monsters. When that happened, it was adorable to see. She simply melted into a wiggly mass of happiness as she worked closer and closer to each of her subjects. Her first subject she actually climbed over the downed tree he was under and she landed on top of his head. She made the decision on her own to return to Kristi without having to be called, but not before she weaseled her way into her subjects face and thoroughly licked the living daylights out of him. AND she took the "show me" command to heart and flew back to the subject with out any encouragement or calling from the subject. Her second subject, she climbed the tree to get to her, had to have the face to face contact and then make her way back to Kristi without being called and blasted her way back to the subject without hesitation.
She is moving right along and doing a fine job of it!
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