Here's a post-surgery movie of BB at about the 4 months point. He looks pretty good and flies through the woods at his usual speed, but still needs a lot of strengthening and conditioning. I won't work him at night until the Spring since it's not worth risking injury at this point. Now at the 6 month point, he tires at about 2 hours of strenuous activity. No where near the 4-6 hours from before. But yesterday he scaled up-and-down a 6-foot vertical drop into a stream bed -- so I continue to see progress. I cut this movie down to eliminate long boring parts of me tromping through the woods. The whole thing took about 8 minutes. The subject was about 500 feet from where the dog blasted off to make the find. We had a really nice breeze so it was an easy problem. So I didn't see much until about his 3rd re-find (BB came back to tell me 3x that he found someone; in a re-find, the dog is supposed to go back and forth between the handler and subject until they are together).This was the first problem where anyone ever said that BB sneaked up . A 90 pound shepherd running through crinkly leaves rarely sneaks up on anyone. :-)
