Article indication for tracking dogs We got a lot of questions about this video and thought it might be a good idea to explain the process more in detail. This is a way to teach an article indication for tracking dogs. We would not use it for detection dogs since they are supposed to indicate on specific target odors and their full indication is trained much later in the training process. A tracking dog should indicate on all items that holds human scent from the person who set the track. That m

👇The first step to pro tracking is… The indication behavior. Most people teach tracking first and indication LAST… And while it can work in the short-term… That approach makes your training progress suffer. Why? Because your dog isn’t searching for human scent anymore. It’s searching for FOOD. And what happens when you reduce it? Your dog gets confused… and starts missing articles. It loses focus right when you need it the most. And motivation just suddenly ‘disappears’. Some trainers try to av