[Carina43]

OK...thanks all! This gives me some ideas.

We are doing a regulation (or as close as I can guesstimate when on my own) track, and I have a 30' line. At class, I do blind tracks, and I am LEARNING to read Cooper's style! On my own, I usually do it myself - I'm going to enlist Mick's help to lay tracks for us.

There seems to be such debate about the food thing! Some people say NEVER lay food on the track, only give it from your pouch at the end. Others say lots of food...I've been doing what the instructor said as outlined above. I'll try adding intermittent drops along the way & at the turns, see if that helps.

I'll also work on keeping steady pressure on the line - this is what our instructor said, too. I think Cooper just gets in such a rush that he misses turns - he actually seems to be able to follow a track just fine. So I will work on slowing him down.

Shirley - a few of us class members are going to start meeting in October, right now a couple of folks are on vacation. Winter tracking! Should be fun in the snow. :)