Welcome to RDOC Tracking Class

Summer (it’s summer this week😳) is all about short tracks. Which means it’s all about finessing the details—both dog details and handler details. Please watch this track in slow motion (I’d suggest 0.5 speed). https://youtu.be/zbWha5TPxr8?si=xvfFCjRcg6Fcd35b This is my friend Suzy and her Danish Swedish Farmdog ‘Helix.’ Watch carefully at about 14 seconds. Do you see Helix clearly indicate the track? His nose actually follows the track as far as it physically can, while

Heather and Wren passed their TD today in New Jersey! Congratulations team Wren! Side note: Wren paid part of her own entry free, finding, and indicating, a five dollar bill just past the second flag!

Betty and Dylan passed their TD test at RDOC’s test March first! Congratulations Betty and Dylan!

It was 88 today, and is supposed to be warmer tomorrow. Welcome to Spring. We all know from here forward we are going to have “seasonal” weather (whatever that is), and hotter than seasonal, and colder that seasonal. What is a tracking dog handler to do? Step one: THINK. Hot is harder, hot and humid is hardest. Do I still track in it? I do—short tracks, run comparatively fresh. So what does that mean? Today, it was lovely early, and was hot by 10. We put 2 tracks in e

Kelly and Fogell posted an awesome video I suggest you all watch. Hint: there a bunny. Reality check— we track in areas with wildlife. Monday there was a beautiful coyote in our field. We have several pair of foxes. A bear. And of course the usual suspects: bunnies, raccoons, possums, squirrels, deer, etc. How are you going to handle wildlife running across your track? What’s your plan?