How much do I allow? How hard should I work to stop it? What should I do to discourage it? Or, since this is TTD, do I allow it, as long as he is on scent? Will he stay closer to the track when we begin aging?
if your training for SAR, i would think as long as he is able to find the person, it shouldn't matter how he gets there.
but i get the feeling you're a perfectionist. and that makes dog training difficult.......i have been humbled many times. i still strive for perfect, but i have learned that sometimes you need to accept less because your dog doesn't follow the same mental image of the "ideal".
i had to gear one of mine towards SAR because his natural tracking style was unacceptable for competition and it was easier (and more fair) to change my goals. you can't fight nature.
so if it works for him, i wouldn't worry about it.
A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.
--Roger Caras
50 feet would be a little too far away.
personally, if my dog is 5 feet off, i'm ready to spit fire.
6 inches off, i don't like.
but my dog taught me to accept less than perfect. he was following the track close enough to be accurate and to find evidence. but when i tried to get him closer i almost shut him down. so i live with what he gives me.
i'm relatively new to SAR, so i only know a couple of different thoughts on it, and most of the people i talk to don't even think a dog should be trained in tracking.
A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.
--Roger Caras
Well, again, that depends upon one's goals. If it is solely to make the find, then airscent is considered by many to be the way to go. But, if you want to establish a direction of travel and locate clues, then tracking is very useful. Establishing a direction of travel is paramount in narrowing the search area down to a manageable size. However, it's like I mentioned in another thread, if you have trained mantrackers available as a resource, it seems redundant to also have tracking dogs. But it often so happens that a particular resource may not be available, so it doesn't hurt to have options.
Anyway, I'm training mine for tracking. When we're mission ready in tracking, my dog will be the only scent discriminating tracking dog on our team, the others being airscent (and not scent discriminating). So, it will be nice to have that option available.
Six inches??? And you call ME a perfectionist??? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />
my tacking started with schutzhund. i forget sometimes that the SAR dogs aren't doing schH.
i think i was the reason my trainer started going to therapy.
but that's gonna need a new thread............
A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.
--Roger Caras
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