Huge thank you to instructors Sinead Imbaro and Kirsten Moore, host Cheryl Phillips, and my fellow students. I learned so much from each of you. The temperature went from hot to cold, dry to wet, relatively still to super windy. We worked woods and urban. We worked mornings, mid-day, and to nearly midnight. The dogs were quite diverse - Boerboel, Patterdale, Doberman, Labrador, and Malinois. Boozie and I got to do a GAK9 "Stairway to Heaven" (blind). I thought he was being "crazy" because it was relatively short aged and in virginal woods unlike our long aged concrete jungle trails but nope, it was all the scent cones and back tracks, and other scent challenges along the way.
Boozie and I attained GAK9 urban level 3 and urban level 4 during this training period. I am especially thankful of Hunter, a local fireman who hung out during the 4 hours with intermittent rain for the level 4.
