{"id":1730,"date":"2018-06-13T18:47:16","date_gmt":"2018-06-13T22:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportingdetectiondogs.ca\/?p=1730"},"modified":"2018-06-13T18:47:16","modified_gmt":"2018-06-13T22:47:16","slug":"its-not-an-indication-its-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stage.sdda.ca\/fr\/its-not-an-indication-its-art\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s not an indication.  It\u2019s ART."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Having now spent some years in scent work, I\u2019ve refined my indication into performance art. I\u2019ve seen the sit (yawn), the down (Boooring), the smash (Go labs and Malinois) and the stare (my herding peeps excel at this). But I felt that this whole sport was lacking a certain flair.<\/p>\n<p>I used to do a down or a sit and then my artistic soul rebelled and I came up with \u2026..wait for it\u2026..the Twerk indication. This is art, folks. This is poetry in motion while also serving the purpose for which an indication is intended.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\">What is this twerk indication you may ask? It\u2019s a finely tuned hovering between a sit and a down. A delicate, almost hummingbird like vibration with one\u2019s hind quarters never really touching the ground but never really fully upright. I further enhanced the absolute beauty of this move by adding in a head bob with a pleading look to my handler. It is enough to bring you to tears.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\">The added benefit of the Twerk indication is that can be mightily confusing to your handler. Additional bonus? It opens her up for some remorseless teasing from fellow handlers whose dogs do more traditional indications.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\">I encourage my fellow sniffers to expand their horizons. See the indication for what it can be not just what it is. Let your Freak Flag Fly. Bust a move. Dazzle the judges. Flights of fancy foot work await you.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Miley Cyrus of pugs? PLEASE. Miley should be so lucky. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having now spent some years in scent work, I\u2019ve refined my indication into performance art. I\u2019ve seen the sit (yawn), the down (Boooring), the smash (Go labs and Malinois) and the stare (my herding peeps excel at this). But I felt that this whole sport was lacking a certain flair. I used to do a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stage.sdda.ca\/fr\/its-not-an-indication-its-art\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;It\u2019s not an indication.  It\u2019s ART.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scents-of-humour"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.0","language":"fr","enabled_languages":["ca","fr"],"languages":{"ca":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"fr":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stage.sdda.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stage.sdda.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stage.sdda.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stage.sdda.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stage.sdda.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1730"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stage.sdda.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1732,"href":"https:\/\/stage.sdda.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1730\/revisions\/1732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stage.sdda.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stage.sdda.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stage.sdda.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}