We went up to Harvey's lake last evening - Flash and Ellie came too, and we all had a run around and went across the dam to the other side - Ellie's so funny - she just goes off and does her own thing! She's just crazy about water and exploring it!
We all went back in the car then, and Sian and Phil took the stinker out, and then came back for me. I could smell it a long way off - that's the easy bit - it's finding it that's harder - you have to find where the smell is strongest, so you do that by sort of going across the wind if you know what I mean. When you cross the wind, you find out where the smell comes from, and you then cross back, until you get to where it gets strongest. Its a bit like a cone of smell that comes from whatever you're looking for. Flash says that's the same as he does but he doesn't do it on water.
Anyway when you get to where the smell is strongest, you have to tell the Boss - I'm only learning this game, so I sometimes forget to tell her straight away. She usually knows when I've found it even when I don't bark at her - yesterday, I was just swimming round and round and then coming out to her. I thought she was going to walk away and not give me the ball, so then I remembered I had to bark at her, and I got the ball - I only do this so I can play with the ball - I love it!!!
It went dark while I was looking for the smell the second time, and I forgot to tell Boss, so that wasn't so good. Because of that I think she's planning to take me out training again today. It's Nant Peris Fair today, so we might go to that this afternoon. Problem with training at weekends is that it's quite busy, and we haven't found ourselves a nice quiet lake yet - if you know of one we can use, just leave me a message. We need one that isn't used for people's water, and that's reasonably close to a road.
