Yesterday’s training was awesome. Our trainer sent us a message telling us where the training problem was set up and what our search perimeters were. This problem was a self confirm problem. There was no trainer watching over our shoulders to tell us if our dog missed anything or to tell us to reward our dog. I love this type of training. Rogue found the first aid without any problems. He was about 10 feet away when he responded but the aid was about 8 feet high so the corner that he responded in was close enough for me. He did have a very weak change on a plastic bin but I didn’t believe him because he didn’t have a change on the bin the first time he walked it. I found out later that the dog that ran the problem before did respond on that bin and his handler took everything out of the bin trying to find the aid. This is major distracter for a dog and I think Rogue did a good job. Yes he responded but he didn’t have his normal change so by reading my dog I knew there was nothing there. Rogue pulled me into a small room that had a small kitchenette and a bathroom. Rogue was all over the cabinets in the kitchenette and responded on the middle cabinet. I was sure that I would find something when I opened the cabinet door but I was wrong. It was empty. When I opened the door Rogue had almost his entire body in the cabinet sniffing the back wall. I had to pull him just to check and see if I missed anything. There was nothing there but Rogue was sure that there was. We continued on with our search and made our way into the bathroom. Rogue did a good scan but he missed a couple of areas so I had to present the toilet paper hold, the soap dispenser, and the small hatch in the wall that allows the plumber access to the pipes of the bathroom. As soon as Rogue’s nose hit the hatch his tail started wagging and when he tried to lick/bit the wall I was 100% sure there was an aid in there. I opened the hatch just to make sure and I found that I was looking at the back of the cabinets in the kitchenette. Because Rogue didn’t show any interest in the bathroom until I presented the hatch I think it is safe to say the odor was being sucked out of the bathroom and into the kitchenette. After Rogue was rewarded in the bathroom he was taken back to the kitchenette and rewarded after he found source again.