Canine Tracking Guide: Training the All-Purpose Tracker (CompanionHouse Books) Anatomy and Function of a Dog’s Nose, Scent and Search Patterns, Competitive Coursing, First Aid, and More (Country Dogs)

The beginner-friendly information to coaching a monitoring canine!

Anatomy and performance of the canine’s most important organ—his noseUnderstanding scent patterns and what influences themSelecting the best pet for a monitoring candidateEssentials of scent dealing with, storing, and sourcingTypes of monitoring, search patterns, and overcoming difficulties on the trackCompetitive monitoring, coursing, and first assist for monitoring canine

Scenting is the inherited capability of each canine. Canine Monitoring Information will aid you educate your canine to establish a particular scent and lead you to its origin!

This 120-page easy-to-read e-book particulars the 2 commonest makes use of of the canine nostril: following blood trails for wounded recreation and monitoring people (from misplaced youngsters and lacking hikers to escaped convicts). Writer Don Abney, a court-certified skilled within the area of canine coaching and monitoring, explains the idea of human scent and the way the superb canine nostril features. He then elaborates on the essential coaching rules, instructions, workouts, and patterns utilized in monitoring work.

Whether or not you are working with searching canine, police canine, cadaver canine, or competitors canine, this useful information gives the data you may want for each monitoring pursuit. A canine approaches every process the identical method—monitoring deer or raccoon, wounded prey, fallen recreation, a blood path, a chosen object, or a misplaced baby within the woods. Writer Don Abney, a grasp coach within the fields of monitoring, searching, search-and-rescue, and detector work, makes use of confirmed strategies of coaching and execution to put out the inspiration for instructing a canine to establish a particular scent and to steer its proprietor to its origin. You will additionally discover a complete glossary of widespread monitoring phrases, an inventory of poisonous substances to keep away from, and a useful index.

Be taught all it’s worthwhile to know to start out coaching a monitoring canine, with Canine Monitoring Information!

Writer ‏ : ‎ CompanionHouse Books; Reprint version (November 18, 2014)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 120 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1621871029
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1621871026
Merchandise Weight ‏ : ‎ 7.4 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.75 x 0.25 x 9.5 inches