Episode #13 How to episode: Tracking and Detection

The Working Dog Depot Podcast

Rich and Howard go over some of the methods they have used in order to teach working dogs to track and do odor detection. There is no one way or absolutes when training dogs. In this episode they share the methods that have worked best for them when training tracking and detection working dogs.
Tracking:

• Proper dog selection
• Pronounced hunt drive
• Hard surface tracking "scent in a bottle"
• article indication
• Tracking vs Trailing

Detection

• Hunt, Hunt, Hunt
• Selecting the best method for the dog
• Having options to choose from
• Knowing how to problem solve
• Trained final response "TFR"
• Indirect reward vs direct reward
• Conditioned reinforcers

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