Tired dogs..........

Tracking practice today - no point in driving up to the forest once a month if the dogs are not trained at home. Thawed the blood, found the legs of deer (the treasure the dog finds at the end of the track) and went out to lay the tracks - an easy one for Funny and far more complicated ones for Yankee and Sammy.
Hours later - the difference in the ability and experience between the three dogs is astounding: Funny, happily sniffing from blood spot to blood spot, but not really getting the idea about forward motion or that a great reward is waiting at the end, and just as happy going backwards as forwards - Sammy, eons better, strong forward motion, a few insecurities mainly due to human errors, finding her leg smoothly even through the last bit of wet black bog water.
Yankee - the professional - full line, full speed, no errors, taking the turn in the same speed as the straight bit, doing his track in less than half the time it took Sammy - and proudly carrying his leg all the way home.
Now they are all asleep, also Eliza who had her nice long walk - the RRs are so tired that they hardly stirred at dinner time - using your nose is exhausting business