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Thank you very much, all. I have found a few other places to track, albeit at a greater distance, so I will not be tracking in the same place more than once a week.
How did you know that I have a problem with him going too fast? He has been going fast for the couple of weeks. At times, he doesn't even stop at the scent pad. For the first couple of dozen paces, he goes very fast then later slows down to an acceptable speed. However, he is definitely not eating more than half of the bait. He really likes the bait; he'll do anything for hotdogs so I don't think that's the problem. He just wants to get to that end to eat more of them. I'll try bigger pieces.
Our training director recommended that I cut his food at home so he can eat more on the field. I also tried doing scent pads only before a track and that seemed to help a bit. I will also try your suggestions.
Thanks again. :)
You can steer her to some degree, (I use two lines, one under each leg, with some dogs, like driving a horse... ;-) but be sure to keep the track interesting enough that she is more tempted to work it out on her own. Vary the distance between food drops, etc., but don't worry if she misses some of them as long as she stays pretty well on the track. It is not faulty to check to the side now and then anymore either. You kind of just have to know what your dog brings to the table, work with it the best you and she can, (again and again and again) and be prepared to accept it ain't always gonna be perfect.
Good luck,
SS
How to bring a young or new green dog to start of the track makes big diffrance,bring him calmly and have food ready in your hand to distract him for going in to the overdrive. if you help him on the he might get the idea of that he has to look or wait for you to get help , he needs to learn to work indepantly without any help and build all the confidance he needs .Also not to play or put a jackpot at the end .by doing this he gets conditioned to hurry up to the end of track this is why most handler s having a problem on tracking .leash should be loose and if he gets off the track just hold him geanly and not to say anything till he comes back to track again.Look at the some of the top trainers you don;t see thair dog pull and missing the turn or etc...
Thanks again. I tried bigger pieces of bait last night and that seemed to help. He still tried to lunge at the start, but the rest of the track went well. If I don't leave a jackpot at the end, won't I risk confusing the dog in regards to where his job ends?
I put a lot of wet bait on a large scent pad in the beginning. 1/8" hot dog slices do fine. At the end is a pile of bait and CALM PRAISE. When the dog finishes the pile, I have it sit, heel away calmly 20+ paces, preferrably towards a would be judge to fake reporting out, (shake hands, sit, heel) then reward on the way back to the van. You have to wait to reward till after your critique in a real trial, but I am talking about beginning dogs here. I have had to force myself to learn to be very calm in tracking, from the minute I get out of the van to the minute I get ack in to leave. I tend to be hectic in everything else, which drives my dogs nuts and has spoiled our performances in the past.
Good luck!
SS
I was just going to post a thread on this, but since this one is about the same topic, I'll ask my question here.
Can someone tell me exactly how schutzhund tracking is scored? In AKC/CKC tracking, the only thing that matters is the dog reaches the end of the track, but I know schutzhund is different. The dog loses points for lifting its nose from the track, for instance.
On what else is the score based? How many corners would there be in a schutzhund 1 track, and how long would it be?
There are three legs in SchH1 (two corners). Each leg is a minimum of 300 paces. No points are deducted from tracking fast or slow so long as the dog is consistent, but the dog may not gallop. The indicating of the articles will be as declared by the handler at the time of reporting and it must be the same every time.
Edited to add: If you plan on trying for a SchH title, you should pickup a rule book.
I live over three hours from the nearest club, Topli, so the chances of me ever titling my dog are pretty much zero, unless I move!
Topli I am glad that your tracking went well,remember not to make things hard for him as for start try to distract him with food if he is green and if he has very good helling then you can use helling to control him but never get into tug a war at start and at the end ,no he does not know how long the track is so take him away calmly as soon as he hits the end ,You can use double track few steps to know where the track ends also it will give you enough time to pull him away remember Article is next step I like to teach article before turn this way I can have more control to his tracking.
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