[Dailydrool] Tracking? TRacking! OBOY!!!

[Beverly Szaton]

I LOVE tracking.
Tracking is what Bassets excel at. That and eating and sleeping and
stepping in front of you on walks.

Be warned: as if those noses are not good enough without training, once
they understand how to use them, they never ever forget,and they are GOOD.

Get yourself a copy of Sandy Ganz's TRACKING FROM THE GROUND UP. (Try
"Dogwise" if Amazon doesn't have it.)

Tracking is one of the few exercises during which you will learn to
entirely trust your dog. It is the one thing during which you will learn
the subtle (or not so subtle) ways your dog signals he is on a scent or
simply wandering about.

These dogs are great at tracking. Never punish. The dog always wins in
tracking, no matter if you have to set him up for that on a bad day or not.

Nigel is a fabulous tracker. He was working on his TDX when he went down in
the rear but he still has the best nose of all of them. Mitchell had his
TD. When we went to run his test he had to wait in the Van for a couple of
hours while other dogs went first, and he howled the entire time. Watching
a Basset track is absolutely magical and makes the hair on your arms stand
up.

Once you see a good tracker you begin to understand why the drug smugglers
have such a hard time getting past the narcotics dogs. You cannot bury
something in another scent deep enough or long enough to fool the dogs.

MomPerson and Nigel, TD.
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