Tracking
Teach your dog to track (follow) a human scent and find any dropped articles. Great fun for your dog and you, also great for using up some your dog’s boundless energy.
Tracking
What is tracking? Tracking is the ability to detect, recognise and follow a specific scent.
Our dogs are born with this skill and would use it for survival before being domesticated.
Humans have exploited this for years, by applying dog behaviour to the Dogs ability to Track, we now use-tracking dogs for lots of different operational purposes.
- Police for criminals and evidence.
- Military for opposition and threats, some countries Poachers and even Animals.
When tracking a Human, the dogs are taught to follow Track Scent, which is the disturbance in the ground left by the human’s feet, (footprints). Tracking the dogs are taught to keep their nose down and follow the whole track not just to get to the end, but to also indicate on any evidence (articles), dropped by the criminal, and which route he took.