I can't find the old thread where you folks were helping me with this.
Pink can:
1)find the dried mushroom under furniture and indicate by lying down.
2) can "select" by lying down, the dried mushroom in the coffee cup, from 2 other identical coffee cups with assorted other things that I change every trial, like plastic, batteries, ball, bone.
How to move this outdoors? I do not want him to mouth or fetch the mushroom, just signal where it is by lying down. The mushrooms are fragile. So, I've had the mushrooms in either glass jars or coffee cups to protect them and he has to pick "which" has the mushroom. Now I need him to move on to "find a mushroom" in the grass and am not sure how to proceed. Plus, I'm not 100% certain that he is "smelling" out the mushroom yet.
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I start outside work using heavy plant pots with holes in...
You could put mushrooms in a plastic jar - pierce holes in the lid, toss into a small grassy area and put dog on a 6 foot leash and give your search command. You'll soon know if the dog is ready to move to this level of training.
He had trouble generalizing our training to the woods full of spring scents. Like mushroom finding was a parlor game, now we're in THE DEEP WOODS ITS SO EXCITING! It ended up with me finding mushrooms, then him lying down ON mushrooms, then me feeding him steak in the woods. He did find a few. When the winter goes here in Minnesota and spring growth begins the smells and new life, plus deer scat, coyote scat - it was kind of overwhelming for him, like "yeh I smell that mushroom but these other smells are more exciting". I couldn't keep him on task for any length of time.
We had fun, froze some to practice next winter.
Thanks for asking!
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