We're getting hammered with snow right now. Could get anywhere from 8-12". About 3" on the ground right now. So being as I'm a beginner tracker, I'm wondering if I should try to track Marco in this or will that just create problems. Seems to me I read on a thread here somewhere that someone tracked in the snow before but maybe that was a more experienced dog and/or handler.
David C.Frost Webboard User Reg: 01-23-2002
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Gotta admit, sure makes it easier to see where the tracklayer went. The colder it is, the less scent that is available. Conversely, as it warms, the more scent there is available. Still, sure is easy to see where someone walked.
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One of the key things I've learned, and one thing I'm having to reteach my dog after a long layoff and inclimate weather, is the difference between primary scent and secondary scent. In order to make the bait odor the secondary scent, the disturbed ground must be the primary scent. This is much easier to do on fresh grass. IMHO, if it were me at the stage you are at, I'd wait til the thaw.
Anne Jones Webboard User Reg: 04-29-2004
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Kory this was discussed in the following thread: Just scroll down toward the bottom on the page. In fact YOU had asked the question. It was just in this past January 2013!
I said:
I started my female in the winter when we still had a foot of snow on the ground, left from a blizzard 2 weeks before. They are still taking in the scent of the disturbed ground. Eventually the snow melted enough that the ground underneath was disturbed by the scuffing up from the foot steps.
It is a bit of a cheat in the snow, I thought, as they can see the steps...but honestly my dog never paid attention to that, she was totally using her nose, not her eyes. It did make it easier for me to follow the track, though. :-)
My other dogs were started in the fall & the summer.
Bob Scott said:
tracking in the snow to often can create a crutch for "some" dogs. The can start tracking by eye.
As Anne said with her dog it was no problem thus my " " on the some.
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