| You can start right now to teach her tracking. Take her out into your yard, and throw some special treats in the grass. Hold her and tease her with the treats, and then toss them a few feet away, and then release her, and tell her to find the treats. When she finds them, praise her happily.
After she learns this game, then you move up to stomping a single footprint in the grass, and then placing the treat in the middle of the footprint. She will soon associate the odor of the footprint with getting a reward. These activities are the foundation for teaching a dog to track.
There is no easy way to teach your dog to track. Although the exercises are easy, and non stressful, attention to small details and repetition is vital. This results in a substantial commitment of the handler, and may seem "Hard core" to some, but the results you get are well worth the time spent. |