We are still teaching Tracking and Mantrialing sessions at Steeple Aston so if you would like to try this with your dog contact Jennie by FB or email [email protected]. Sessions can be either weekdays or at the weekend but will have to be during daylight hours for safety reasons.
All dogs can do these two sports whether they are trained or not. Each session is done individually and always on a long line. Tracking and Mantrialing will help to boost you and your dogs confidence and increase the bond you have between you both.
Please contact Jennie if you would like to try either Tracking or Mantrialing.
This is Yogi's 3rd Tracking lesson. In this Track there is a right turn on the Track. Yogi did have some trouble in picking up the Track on the right turn and so I stepped in and helped him to find the Track. Again he is still searching for food but the treats are much further apart. Again I had too much line for Yogi which enabled him to move off the track much easier. Mental note shorten the line!! Very pleased with his progress today.
This is the second Track with Ava today. Here you can see my bad handling of the line. It was too long and didn't help Ava to stay on the track. A shorter line would have stopped her from moving off the line. Ava did a much better Track this time
Today Ava & I had our 3rd Tracking lesson with Darren Carmell. The afternoon was dry and sunny with the wind blowing every where and the ground quite wet. One minute there wasn't any wind the next it was swirling around making tracking for the dogs difficult but Ava was able to find the track and the jackpot at the end. This week Darren had spaced out the treats much further apart and the track just a bit longer. The video shows Ava's warm up.
Introduction to Tracking
This was mine and Yogi's 2nd Tracking session with Darren Carmell. In tracking although we use a long line, in this video Yogi was on a short line so I could help to keep him on the track when necessary. What he is tracking at the moment is food dropped on the track by the person laying the track. But the track for Yogi wasn't just the scent of food. He is also scenting crushed grass, earth, mud, water, footsteps of the track layer along with different odours from the environment from rabbits, foxes, badger, birds, other people, people walking their dogs etc. I used a low hand action and a command to get him on the track. This Track was a short straight line about 25 metres and at the end of this Track was a jackpot of treats at the end. So, Yogi knows when the tracking has finished because there is the jackpot of treats as well as the longline is unclipped from his harness and his lead reattached to his collar. So pleased with his progress.
