DavidStevenson Webboard User Reg: 12-01-2001
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I fount an interesting web page http://home.wanadoo.nl/stroomh/_private/frames_eng.htm
This guy writes:
Food on tracks is unnatural, misleading and an insult to the dog's nose and intelligence....
In 'methods' he writes: The fault here is mixing up the term 'tracking' with 'findig food'.....
If I think about what the dog's nose really can do (drugs, bombs,....) you know, it makes sense somehow or not. What's your opinion?
By the way, my pup is tracking fine again. Thanks.
I couldn't pull up his articles, but as for food, of course it is ridiculously easy for even 8 wk old pup to food track. The point of the food isn't to teach the dog how to use his nose or to help him find the footprints - any pup is capable of finding the footprints. The food is used to build a positive association between the footprint (which initially has no value to the pup) and the reward for finding it (the food). It's a perfect combo of classical conditioning of emotions (CS=footprint, US=food) and operant conditioning (offer behavior of tracking and receive reward in each footprint, then change to intermittent reinforcement, etc). Of course they can learn it other ways, for example, the such/platz which is avoidance conditioning, but many of us prefer the initial experiences to be positive instead.
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