Training A Competition Tracking Dog - An Amazing New Modern Method Offering Precision Tracking Dogs

April 12, 2011 - PRLog -- THE SYSTEM - STEP BY STEP

A few more principles:

First principle: A “tracking article” itself should have potentially no meaning to a dog. It is nothing more than a piece of material. What should have meaning to the dog is the odour of human scent on that piece of material. Tracking is nose work. That means scent is what
the dog is processing. With the endless variety of materials a dog could possibly come across, it would be impossible to effectively teach them the smell of all these materials. The human contact odour is one constant that will always be there and should, therefore, be the focus of our teaching.

Second principle: The scent of human odour on an article is an olfactory command to lie down. Read this a couple of times, it sounds very simple, but try to truly understand what I am trying to say.

The scent of human odour on an article the dog finds on a track is an “article indication command” for the dog. In this context, it takes the place of the verbal command.
Think of the use of hand signals as an example. We can make a dog perform an obedience command by making him obey the verbal command and showing him a hand signal until the hand signal replaces the audible voice command.

So if the sense of hearing a command can be replaced by another sense, the sense of sight, why can’t it also be replaced by the sense of smell?

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