Today is K9 Kamp and I am joining our Kamp Kounselors/hosts for this event. Be sure to stop over to all of the fine host’s (kamp kounselors) and thank them for a great challenge Peggy’s Pet Place, Slimdoggy, and To Dog With Love.
You can see pictures from our first week of Kamp here. You can see pictures from our second week of Kamp here. The first week I used pink bumpers. The second week I used orange bumpers and then the third week I used dokken dummies, two ducks, a goose and a pheasant.The third week pictures will be in this post.
The Kamp khallenge was hide and seek. When the gang goes out hunting and I want them to search for a scent and flush up a bird I tell them to hunt’em up. That cue lets them know I want them to put there nose to the ground and search for a scent, it means they better be working and not just running amuck. I will also use this command if I have shoot something and we are in the area of the fall I will tell them to hunt’em up and they will search for the bird and bring it back to me. This khallenge was all done outside in the snow. I hid bumpers in the snow then took each dog (Gambler and Glory) out one at a time and told them to hunt’em up.
The first week: Gambler
Glory
Since the snow was so deep if the bumpers were under the snow the dogs had a hard time finding the bumpers. Rubber bumpers don’t have much smell when frozen or being placed in snow. They were so excited to finally get out and do something they ran around before they focused on a spot and then did a victory lap after they found it.
Second week: Gambler
Glory
The second week we had more snow and still freezing cold weather. The orange bumpers didn’t make the Khallenge any easier. They did pick up on maybe they should start with my boot tracks and go from there so they got the bumpers faster. you could see how fast they were running looking for their bumpers as when they got a wiff of it they put the breaks on and turned.
Third week: Gambler
Glory
Video of Gambler doing his khallenge.
Video of Glory doing her Khallenge.
The third week was just as deep of snow and just as cold. The dokkens were easier to find as some of them were so big they couldn’t get buried under the snow. Once again they were so excited to go do something when I said hunt’em up like in Gamblers video he took off in to no mans land just a running and I had to steer him to the spot. Glory was much smarter and ran right to the garden to hunt up her find. It was a fun khallenge and it got us out of the house and do something.
Maybe Glory followed Gambler’s tacks?….lol. Great job on the challenge. At least the last week you had some nice sun. 🙂
Great job! Glory was so proud of herself wasn’t she! This is such good exercise and running through that snow – extra hard. It’s why your dogs look so great and are in such good shape.
Congratulations Gambler! Glory, that was a pleasure to watch how happy you were as you found the bird so fast!
Oh thats so great to actually watch videos of them doing this! Glad you posted them! Thanks for sharing in your games!
((husky hugz))
Frum our pack at love is being owned by a husky
I think Glory was using her superior girl power brain and watched Gambler from the window. 🙂 Great job and the dogs look like they are enjoying the hell out of the game.
Wow, your dogs are great! 🙂 I don’t think Nailah could have found those bumpers buried in the snow. Great pics and vids!
Thank you Nailah for stopping by.
What fun they’re having! I just love watching them romp through the snow enjoying themselves so much. And of course the photos with the snow covered faces are great. It was definitely good to have the challenge motivating us to get out of the house more. We were so glad to get a break from the frigid cold here and have more snow on the ground for the dogs to play in.
I needed this challenge or I would still be sitting on my butt in the warm house.
Hi Y’all!
Whoa!!! Great hunting y’all! Glad it wasn’t me stickin’ my snoot in that white stuff!
Y’all come back now!
Hawk aka BrownDog
White stuff is cold on a freezing day.
I found myself just shaking my head in disbelief that your dogs can find those in the deep snow. It is simply incomprehensible to me. Beyond impressed! <3
Oh sometimes they can’t find them as not much scent under the snow but when they do find them it is amazing.
Wonderful shots & looks like sooooo much fun. Not sure my dog would be as confident as finding things in the snow as your dogs are. They did a great job