Tracking with dogs - the first lesson in following a scent

Teach your dog to start to track in just a few minutes!
Tracking is something that comes naturally to dogs, they have the nose for it. However, if you want to do Tracking as an activity, it's a more structured affair. Naturally Happy Dogs puppy Skyler, has had no tracking experience so Heather Donnelly is able to show us, by working with her, how to begin the training.
With food as a reward, little Skyler seemed to find just the motivation she needed, although Heather also shows us how to motivate a dog that is more toy oriented. Heather also tells us how to progress from those early steps.
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[@isabellajimenez5540]

I’m definitely training my beagle how to track, it’ll be good for his mental health and his nose will be happy to be in use

[@GemmaFurbank]

Thank you so much for sharing. We have just got our first puppy (as opposed to our usual rescuing) who has exceptional breeding and his siblings from the same sire are all excelling in scent work. I’m new to it but would love to put Ralph’s drive to good use and test his nose.
Excited to have fun with him and see what he’s capable of.

[@xplod012]

Thanks a lot, I will use this to teach my dog to track and steal other people's weed.

[@prefame2451]

Same

[@Nil-tz6gy]

How'd it go?

[@stevelee4653]

cute rascal!!!

[@brianshipman7021]

What kind of dog is skyler

[@akramokilov249]

Hi there. Can you teach me how to find people from a scent trail?

[@karasmidt2813]

Is this mainly for human tracking or do you use this method with tracking other things?

[@Niilo2.2]

I think this will only work for humans or other animals, but you can also teach scent detection which can be used to identify/find objects by their smell/scent

[@johnkitchens1823]

What if the dog tracks you

[@user-rn9mj2on2i]

Memory?

[@coralenechee3524]

Tracking # puppy

[@kxng1234]

I'm gonna teach my pit to do this

[@trd710]

I see some comments here but i am considering this to find missing dogs... we had a guy who adopted a dog and something happened and he dumped the dog in a place where there is no water or food for vast distances and i thought of creating a tracking dog for the purpose of finding them. What breeds are best for the purpose i intend?

[@isabellajimenez5540]

Definitely some form of scent hound, beagles are no too big and they are friendly, love other dogs. Basset hound are ok too, I personally don’t like them as much.

[@lesboatright8364]

What kind of dog is skylar😊