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My sister joined a different dog and at the meeting last night they were told about a tracking seminar that is happening in May. She called and I want to go so she signed Vendetta and I up for it. Vendetta will be the only pit bull. This club is mainly into hunt but the lady didnt bat an eye at having a pt bull on her porperty. Here is the site

http://http://www.huntspointclub.com/index.html

My sister said that Peggy wants to open this up too other breeds right now they only have retrievers. They didnt let the aussie in last night. I am hoping to get some pointers on training Vendetta hunt. We are having troubles with dummy retrievals. She only likes the orange cloth dummys.

 

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Vendetta does know how to tracking. I started training her last fall. It is hard to find things to do with our dogs way up here. Plus it is nice to get pointers from other trainers.

I started teaching Vendetta the find it game when she was just 2mos old. ( I got her at 4wks). I would hide treats in the house and have her seek them out. It got to the point that I would have to have my son take her outside so I could hide them for her. We set up searches for on the property too. She has an amazing nose.

 

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I really want to do search and rescue at some point. I also am trying to train her to do hunt trails even tho they(dog clubs) dont want to include her because she is APBT. I do it for fun.

 

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Thanks Tom.

I started training her last fall but had to stop because of all the snow. This year I hope to have the basics down better and we can work through the snow. She has a great nose on her. The thing is I dont have any one that does Search and Rescue training up here I would have to travel 4hrs one way to get the help I need so I bought these books.

Search and Rescue Dogs Training the K-9 Hero it was put out by the American Rescue Dog Association

Track Laying 101 by Ed Presnall

Novice Nosework A primer for Beginning Trackers by Ed Presnall adn Lois Ballard

Last fall I took a tracking seminar from Lois Ballard.

 

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I have a tracking harness and a 50ft tracking lead. I only pull them out when we go tracking. She is use to pulling that long rope through the tall grasses already. I have already hooked up some new sites for this year different types of land. SOme upland some swamp and of course lots of woods. I am going to start collect human scent from my co-workers to use. All of them said they would help me out on this end.

Oh I use " lets track" to get her going. My dog is amazing when it comes to understanding words I bet her vocabulary is about 200 words. She knows left, right, back , foward, so she knows the diference between car, van and truck. She is totally an amazing dog. I know that we can do this.

Thanks so much for all of your help thus far and I will be sure to pick your brain when I am stumbling this summer on this endeavor.