Working a Turn

As your dog gains experience (let’s define that as is almost ready to certify for a TD**and if you don’t know what that means, please read the AKC Tracking Rules**) or has it’s TD and is working on X or V, you will need to transfer responsibility for the track to the dog. We spend a lot of time with you working on precision—precise tracking, clear Loss of Scent (LOS), clean refinds of the new leg. And that is the ideal. Sometimes, the idea isn’t what happens. This video is Not the turn you are training for, but it does show you real life—this is what can happen on a turn. And patience is often the difference between success and failure.

Do I know why this turn was so hard? I do not. And I’ll not make up a story about it. It was hard. We shall try this again another day, after he’s had some confidence-building successes!

https://youtu.be/aDkt2IUQVgg?si=BzBvzByyqk8wX1iQ

As an aside, his LOS at the second turn is classic, and worth studying!