Hiking with Victoria

Lusi likes her balaclava!

Victoria has become Lusi's best friend lately. It all started with their silly games and cuddles but recently Victoria has been taking Lusi out for some hard core hiking: The ploughed cornfields behind us are hilly, but the wide open terrain allows Lusi to run...I mean really run! The hilly terrain is quite challenging for me so I know that Lusi is getting a really good workout on these hikes.

Victoria and Lusi returning home 
from a hike together

Lately, we have been exchanging stories about our walks and we are all trying to be consistent with our training commands. 

Lusi in the cornfield: more on Dal body movements when tracking a scent.

Nose down working the cornfield.

The weather similar to yesterday, sunny and a light NE wind  but a bit colder at minus 6 degrees. My husband takes Lusi out for a run in the corn fields and then moves to the open pasture land. He catches a great series of photos showing more about the natural body movements of a Dal when tracking animal scents, ( see previous posting). These are a few of them showing the natural but already now familiarly typical postures that Lusi adopts when picking up and following a ground scent.

Nose down: getting started

Nose down: we're moving now

Nose down and running

Air scenting at the top of the hill