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Hi everyone, i'm just trying to learn about foot step tracking and getting pretty excited, but everything tells me that i can't start until Spring has sprung.
I was wondering if there any games i can play that will help prepare them for when the weather conditions improve. i have been playing some find the treat games in my house to get them to put there noses to the ground and look for bait that they fallow to a jack pot. is there any problems with this idea, and/or are there other ideas that might give us a head start? any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
Rob
Edited by Robert Kirkwood (01/20/2010 06:20 PM)
Edit reason: mistake
Actually I would imagine snow (if you have any) would be GREAT for some tracking activities! I'd be out there burying treats, toys, scent-marked items, just to get the dog digging. Especially if you are trying to get the dog to scratch as an alert. I was soooo ready to try this- Unfortunately all my snow got melted last week! There's another post around here somewhere by Michael Wise on scent training. They say that the Leerburg tracking video says something about burying articles in sand to get the dog alerting by scratching/digging.
Unless I misinterpreted this! I'm very good at misinterpreting things before a full pot of coffee!
Kristel Smart Webboard User Reg: 10-03-2006
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I'm just playing around with FST too, but I like tracking in the winter.
It's easier to keep track of your track in the snow, and super easy to bury the treats just below the surface so they can see/smell them, but have to work a little to get them. Just that has helped my dog get used to keeping his nose deeper into the track, and it slows him down a bit too.
I just don't like it when the snow is too deep or when it's all fluffy. Fluffy snow makes my dog sneeze
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Thanks for everyone's help (even the "snarking" help.) I do understand that dogs can track well in winter... but the book that i ordered from Leerburg (Tracking from the beginning) says that you should begin a dog on lush grass for cover and to keep the very consistent until the dog learns the exercise, but again I'm totally new to tracking and if i can get started any earlier the better for me and the dogs.
I like the idea of tracking in snow too, but we have had a pretty pathetic winter in terms of snow where i live... there is lots of ice and frozen grass (any use in learning to track on that?)
anyways thanks for helping a newbie get started, i think tracking may become one of my favorite things to train it looks like a lot of fun.
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