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Tracking

Tracking is an amazing discipline that helps teach you the ability to read your dog. It requires a lot of patience and teamwork. In tracking, not only do you enter your dog’s world, but you also ask them to take you along with them. Dogs have no biological reason to track man; we must provide them with a positive reason to do so.

We teach the Schutzhund style of tracking. We use imprinting to teach the dog to track footstep to footstep, using a deep nose (close to the ground). We do this by teaching the dog to use its nose, its number one sense, right from the beginning. This type of training gives you unlimited possibilities with your tracking goals:

-Titles and/or competition, either Schutzhund or AKC

-Search and Rescue or man tracking

-A fun outdoor activity for you and your dog

"…in track work, dog and man must unite to form one indivisible whole."
-Max V. Stephanitz