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Tracking & Mantrailing Foundation| Hunter's Heart

This Tracking & Trailing Online Course will help beginners to build a solid foundation for CKC & AKC tracking tests and Search and Rescue candidates. Your dog will learn to use their nose to follow the scent left behind in a specific tracklayer's footprints, and indicate all the articles (aka evidence) they leave behind. Or they can find a missing person waiting at the end of the track. 

What you'll get:

  • Learn about the key success factors for tracking and trailing teams.

  • Motivate your unique dog to love finding scent, so distractions aren't as noticeable. 

  • Develop a reward sequence that practices the behaviors you want, and none of those you don't.  

  • Learn about the most common errors, how to prevent them, and how to overcome them with customized troubleshooting. 

  • Develop a clear system of communication with your dog. 

  • Demonstration videos covering field and urban tracking and trailing safely in dry and wet conditions. 

  • Clear protocols that walk you through every step to success. Check out the course preview below.
  • Get answers to your questions on our private Facebook student discussion group. Coaching and troubleshooting by the instructor are included in the price. 

Have fun, guaranteed. If you don't enjoy the course, you have 7 days to request a full refund. Let's get sniffing!

Tracking & Trailing Foundation Online | Hunter's Heart

  1. Tracking & Trailing Introduction

    5 lessons
    1. Welcome to the Course
    2. About Carla Simon
    3. How This Course Works
    4. Tracking Long Lines
    5. Tracking Harnesses

  2. What You Need to Succeed in Tracking

    4 lessons
    1. The Top 5 Success Factors in Tracking
    2. Tracking Terms
    3. What is an Indication?
    4. Why You Should Let Your Dog Choose Sit or Down

  3. Tracking Tests

    1 lesson
    1. Tracking Test Requirements

  4. Introducing Scent Pads

    5 lessons
    1. How to Create a Scent Pad
    2. Homework - Your Dog's First Scent Pad
    3. Once Your Dog Pulls You Towards the Scent Pads, Add New Surfaces
    4. Homework - Scent Pads on Different Surfaces
    5. Optional Demonstration: Molly's First Scent Pad Outdoors on a Concrete Walkway

  5. Train Your Dog to Follow Your Footsteps

    13 lessons
    1. About Your First Track - Discovery without Pressure
    2. Homework - Your Dog's First Track
    3. Need More Motivation or Less Excitement?
    4. Motivation Demonstration with Cricket
    5. Restraining Cricket & Higher Value Rewards
    6. Increasing Motivation - Homework #1
    7. Increasing Motivation - Homework #2
    8. A Longer Double Laid Track with the Wind at Your Face
    9. Boudica Demonstrates - Longer Double Laid Track
    10. A Longer Track with a Crosswind

    1. Introducing Hard Surface Tracking

      1. About Augmenting Hard Surface Tracks
      2. Demo: Puppy Rosie's First Hard Surface Track
      3. Homework: Double Laid 10-ft Track on a Hard Surface

  6. Start Training Your Dog to Indicate Articles

    12 lessons
    1. Homework - Select Your Target Plate or Glove
    2. About Rewarding with Free Food on the Article
    3. Homework - Practice Rewarding Without Your Dog
    4. Homework - Free Food on the Article
    5. Chasing Food in the Middle Game
    6. Homework - Play the Middle Game (Away from Scent)
    7. Homework - Lie Down, Away from Scent
    8. Homework - Help Your Dog to Lie Down at the Article
    9. Closeup - Forward Focus on the Article
    10. Homework - Help Less
    11. Dog Must Find the Article - Andre Demonstrates
    12. Dog Must Find the Article - Boudica Demonstrates

  7. Curves and Corners

    3 lessons
    1. A Progression to Nail Your Corners
    2. Cricket's Curved Track on Gravel
    3. Your Homework: Curves on Curved Roads