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Originally Posted by Skip  No offense here, but finding something in the house is not tracking. The dog is not following a track this way...just my opinion. To the OP, I would do some research and find what kind of tracking you want to do...AKC, Schutzhund...then I would to locate a club or person in your area that has experience in tracking to show you the basics. |
air scenting is a form of tracking. Ever throw a ball in the dark and make your dog find it?
he wasn't asking about schH tracking or any other formal form of tracking as far as I could tell. He really was asking about what else he could do with his dog.
I was speaking of training the dog to find keys which to me is possibly useful sometime in the future. Find them in the house first and then throw them in a field. If a key or wallet was ever lost then that dog would be tracking for it in a field or where ever.