I don't ususally tell stories on the list, but what Dunbar did today was just amazing.
We were out training in the morning, practicing scent articles while waiting for a track to age. We were using the single bar set reserved just for training. Dunbar tends to really mess up the articles when we use the single bars, he scatters and knocks them around with his feet. When he messed them up today, three of them became tangled together, one right on top of the other. The scented one (the one he was supposed to retrieve) was on the bottom. He sniffed around the group of articles and located the correct one. He hesitated as he realized where it was. I watched in amazement at what he did next. He nosed the top article off the pile of three. He nosed the second one off the bottom one. He picked up the one on the ground (the correct one) and returned it to me as I stood in total astonishment. Don't tell me dogs can't plan things! Marjie
