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by PowerHaus on 07 September 2010 - 17:09
How do you guys start a puppy in tracking?
I was watching a video not long ago(can't find it now) with a 4 month old puppy that tracked like a champ! They used agility rings and the track was only inside of those rings. It was AMAZING! Anyone else seen this video?
Vickie
www.PowerHausKennels.com
I was watching a video not long ago(can't find it now) with a 4 month old puppy that tracked like a champ! They used agility rings and the track was only inside of those rings. It was AMAZING! Anyone else seen this video?
Vickie
www.PowerHausKennels.com
by Myracle on 07 September 2010 - 17:09
Yup.
A lot of people start with just a very big scent pad, and keep the dog there until it is clearly working the edges of the scent pad without leaving it. Then they begin adding a tracking leading out from the scent pad, and once the dog understands that there will be a tracking leading out, the scent pad begins to shrink to the standard sized scent pad.
A lot of people start with just a very big scent pad, and keep the dog there until it is clearly working the edges of the scent pad without leaving it. Then they begin adding a tracking leading out from the scent pad, and once the dog understands that there will be a tracking leading out, the scent pad begins to shrink to the standard sized scent pad.
by BabyEagle4U on 07 September 2010 - 21:09
About the only things my dog has to track is my son and every now and again a bull or horse that decided to hit the trails. LOL
With my Mal is was so easy to teach "go get Christopher" .. she learned it well in about a week. By the end of the 6-7th day all I had to do was say "go get Christopher" and she did.
To teach her this I had Christopher step in some liverworst then go take a hike. I'd send the dog after 15 mins or so to start. Grandeur would follow the scent of the liverworst. After many many times of this and reducing the amount of liverworst (next to nothing maybe a pea size eventually) and extending the distance. Some of the hikes Christopher would take took over 120 mins before he'd radio back with the ok to send. Sometimes he climb high in a tree to purposely throw her off of his air sent. A pea size liverworst last on the foot about 45 mins through water and all ... after that Grandeur was forced to go air sent or come back without him, she never came back with out him !!! What would take him 2 hours, took her 16 mins !! We love her !!
All I have to do now is say "go get Christopher" and she just goes and gets him. It's a command now.
I have a video somewhere Christopher took of her while he was high in a tree (for the first time), she was in a panic manic frenzy for like 7 minutes running circles in about a 150 yard area around him with her nose high in the air. She locked eyes with him 7 minutes later and the excitement she had was almost like she was giving herself a personal achievement. Then jumped tree limbs and climbed the tree !! Amazing how dogs think.
We love her.
With my Mal is was so easy to teach "go get Christopher" .. she learned it well in about a week. By the end of the 6-7th day all I had to do was say "go get Christopher" and she did.
To teach her this I had Christopher step in some liverworst then go take a hike. I'd send the dog after 15 mins or so to start. Grandeur would follow the scent of the liverworst. After many many times of this and reducing the amount of liverworst (next to nothing maybe a pea size eventually) and extending the distance. Some of the hikes Christopher would take took over 120 mins before he'd radio back with the ok to send. Sometimes he climb high in a tree to purposely throw her off of his air sent. A pea size liverworst last on the foot about 45 mins through water and all ... after that Grandeur was forced to go air sent or come back without him, she never came back with out him !!! What would take him 2 hours, took her 16 mins !! We love her !!
All I have to do now is say "go get Christopher" and she just goes and gets him. It's a command now.
I have a video somewhere Christopher took of her while he was high in a tree (for the first time), she was in a panic manic frenzy for like 7 minutes running circles in about a 150 yard area around him with her nose high in the air. She locked eyes with him 7 minutes later and the excitement she had was almost like she was giving herself a personal achievement. Then jumped tree limbs and climbed the tree !! Amazing how dogs think.
We love her.
by GSDPACK on 07 September 2010 - 21:09
circle I dont do scent pads I dont see much good with a puppy going all ways and picking up food. I do a circle, with food, set the puppy inside and let the nature take its course. after the puppy is "confident" in circles I break them into half and make an S next thing I know I have 5 monts old puppy tracking 200 paces with only half track of food, no beaten surface and tremenous stamina and dedication.. After that (9-13 months) I introduce articles, when I have understanding of those I put them on a track and then the puppy tracks for articles only.
I change terrain right away. I like my dogs to track on anything available to me. I also like aging the tracks from the beginning (minimum of 20 minutes to an hour in about 10 month olds.)I also read the dog and see what we need to work on. Every dog is different.
happy tracking
I change terrain right away. I like my dogs to track on anything available to me. I also like aging the tracks from the beginning (minimum of 20 minutes to an hour in about 10 month olds.)I also read the dog and see what we need to work on. Every dog is different.
happy tracking
by PowerHaus on 08 September 2010 - 00:09
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by Myracle on 08 September 2010 - 18:09
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by Don Corleone on 09 September 2010 - 00:09
Well I'm not much for scent pads for to long or at all. I have a puppy that is almost 4 months and is doing a SchH I track minus the articles. Actual turns, serpentines, whatever. If he wasn't so young and knew the down well, hed be doing articles by now. I'm also not a big fan of taking food off the track until I have everything down. Food on the track is a reward and it is awesome if the dog F's up, there is something on the track to reward. You are building muscle memory. Left, right, left , right, left right, etc, etc. Taking food off too quickly sounds great to the handler because they think they're progressing, but it forms bad habits and uninspired dogs. Me, I'll make a track hard as hell but with lots of reward. I see too many people laying simple tracks with absolutely no reward. Also not a big fan of tracking a nebwbie on short grass for too long. Tend to use their eyes instead of the nose.
by animules on 09 September 2010 - 00:09
Super info. Thanks all. 
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