Woke up this morning in the Red Roof Inn in Willoughby, Ohio.
The seminar today was Introduction to K9 Nose Work® and it was a lot of fun. Unfortunately, some of the video didn’t work, so I didn’t get to see the videos of Sluggo the Yorkie. Sluggo is a seminar favorite.
Tomorrow the seminar is Introduction to Odor.
This evening we ran an Odor Recognition Test. I tried to be V.ery H.elpful, with the hope that NACSW will ask me to Judge or C.O. some ORT’s in Illinois in 2016.
The cool thing is this… In order to stay a CNWI, I need 12 CEU’s. Each of the seminars, which the super facility owner is allowing me to attend for free, gives me 4 CEU’s. And the ORT gave me 3. So, tomorrow I have 11 of 12 required… all earned with the lady who is in charge of Education, and is going to cut me slack for the missing CEU.
And she told me what I can do next year, if things aren’t resolved enough for me to earn CEU’s toward 2017.
Yay.
So, tonight I saw somewhere around 40 ORT’s – that’s a test where there are 12 cartons, 1 with scent in it – the dog has to do something to get the handler to call an alert.
It was fun. I saw several VERY ENTHUSIASTIC Labrador Retrievers, 2 German Shorthaired Pointers (one of them trotted like a dressage horse – just beautiful). One German Shepherd, 2 Newfoundlands – one black and white (that is called “Landseer” after the painter) and one all black except for grey around her mouth. Her handler called her sugar lips.
There were also a couple of mixed breeds and a Brussels Griffon named Twizzler. Twizzler would go to each carton and snort, until she found the scent, where she’d go “snort, snort, snort.” Cracked me up.
Now I’m back at Red Roof Inn, drinking a Coke Zero with Cherry flavoring, about to have a piece of pie while I watch the Blind Side. Tomorrow I’ll be at the seminar until 4, so back at my room much earlier. Rather than paying the $2.65/gallon I hit at the gas station just before I left Indiana, I’m going to fill my tank between the seminar location and the motel – the price around here is $2.14/gallon. That should get me past that area in Indiana with the gouging prices.
I wish I could stay here. Well, if Nietzsche were with me.
And that’s the news from the homeless running away from DuPage County, IL.
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