Once you lay a track and the dog goes over it, if he misses some of the bait is it alright to allow him to go back and pick it up after the jackpot reward (the pile of bait at the end)?
Alright, thanks! I haven't ever allowed a dog to but it always bugs me when they leave it behind since that's 'money' wasted. The birds and squirrels can fight over it.
I don't have an answer, but its interesting. If you do circle tracks like in Ivans stuff, the puppy ends up only going the direction you laid the track. In the beginning they kinda go back and forth, maybe leave the track, but they figure out the direction and from what I saw with mine, by the third track or so, they never back tracked.
It's not a question about the behavior during the physical act of tracking what I've laid down. It's after the dog is done, the work is done, and the dog knows he's done and then being allowed to go back to the track and snuffle out tidbits he's overlooked while working.
Use less bait on the track, don't feed the dog first, slow the dog down so he checks out each FS & gets all the bait. Feed the dog his meal on the track..he won't miss it after a day or 2.
To me if he is leaving more then a couple of pieces of bait...he is going too fast or you are using too much bait.
I personally run the track & then that's it. I don't want the dog to think...oh well, if I miss some I'll get it later. They get one shot at it & that's it. Just the way that I have done it per my mentor that had a number of the top SchH dogs in the country he bred.
It's not a question about the behavior during the physical act of tracking what I've laid down. It's after the dog is done, the work is done, and the dog knows he's done and then being allowed to go back to the track and snuffle out tidbits he's overlooked while working.
Yeah, I understood that. One of the fears about letting him go back on a track he already ran is that once he's 33' feet out from you, he may decide the track is done and turn around and come right back to you, looking for what he missed. I wasn't clear when I said I didn't have an answer, just that it was interesting how they work it out and go the right direction on their own, even after having done something similar to what your asking.
Ah I understand, Steve. I looked up Ivan's circle tracking video and I think I'll invest in it.
River hasn't tracked since mid November so we're starting out going over what she should know. I wish I would have gotten her first Spring track on film because when my hand went in front of her she thought I meant 'lay down' and when I encouraged her forward she thought I wanted her to crawl. She tracked while dragging her belly along the ground but she still did a decent job. How funny would it be if she did that on the trialing field and STILL got high scores?
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Use less bait on the track, don't feed the dog first, slow the dog down so he checks out each FS & gets all the bait. Feed the dog his meal on the track..he won't miss it after a day or 2.
To me if he is leaving more then a couple of pieces of bait...he is going too fast or you are using too much bait.
I personally run the track & then that's it. I don't want the dog to think...oh well, if I miss some I'll get it later. They get one shot at it & that's it. Just the way that I have done it per my mentor that had a number of the top SchH dogs in the country he bred.
Me too. We just go home after.
Also ditto:
"To me if he is leaving more then a couple of pieces of bait...he is going too fast or you are using too much bait."
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