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I absolutely LOVE tracking as a way to give a dog something to do. It wears a dog out (and a tired dog IS a good dog) and I have found that if you do it in motivational ways, my dogs have loved it. And when you do it for the fun only, you don´t need to overstress stuff (my bulldog will refuse a track that has over 7-8 paces without food and I just can go ahead and put food- a frenchie is a hopeless IPO prospect anyway).
Norman- I asked because I had this problem and didn´t know a good way how to fx this but at least for now I have found my way. Dušan Majtas came to Estonia this summer to judge some exams and between them gave some people pointers how he tracks. No tension (that made Veeda race), very calm before the track and on the track (with praise also) etc. When I started to use this method, I was in the bottom tracking hell (and no idea how to get back). With ca. month I had a different dog. My friend (who hadn´t screwed up her track before that and has a track loving dog) passed IPO 1 and 2 with 99 and 95 in tracking.
Jaana, glad you have had success. It is very difficult to accurately assess problems and then respond with meaningful suggestions for training issues without actually seeing the dog and your responses while he or she is exhibiting the behaviors, but you asked.
Ann, how do I know when he is ready? For me I stay with scent pads until the dog knows what your tack command means (put his nose down when you give it) and remains in the scent pad until most of the food is gone and when he ventures out he goes back in order to find more. At this point I always have some extra food in my pocket and drop it in the scent pad so the dog is rewarded for this behavior. I do my "heel toe" around the borders of the scent pad and not usually on the track itself. Regarding length of stride when laying foundations tracks, that depends on the age of the pup. If the dog is around three months old I take a normal walking pace. However if the dog for some is lacking drive in tracking then I would have my paces closer together in order to give the dog more rewards for going forward on the track.
Laura Dobson Webboard User Reg: 03-16-2008
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Question, when a dog is doing good at short tracks and you are ready to go to longer length tracks, what would be the max amount of time for the to sit before putting the dog on it?? The reason I'm asking, my dobe is doing real good on tracks I lay around my front yard. I make them so they are never the same and we even do corners, but my front yard is not so big. There is a stretch of land about a block from my house that I would love to start doing tracks, but I'm no sure if I go lay the track and then walk home and get my dog and walk back, will too much time have passed for him to track ok. It would probably take about max ten minutes to get home and back if even. What do you guys (and girls) think???
Laura
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