Basic Training-- Motivation and Skills-- The making of a Search Dog

Washington Post Video-- Pound Pups Train to Become Rescue Dogs

Washington Post Article and Video 

( c ) 2008, The Washington Post. PHOTOGRAPH BY MARVIN JOSEPH. Reprinted with Permission.

Motivating the dog to look forward to searching for lost people is the single most important thing we do during training.  Above, Charlie is getting rewarded for his first training find that began with just a scent article.  Charlie is enjoying a treat from the person he just found while his handler and the facilitator pet him and tell him what a good dog he is.  You can't see his tail, but it's wagging like crazy!

Motivational Training and Search Games

Box Games

Person in a Box

Training Elements of the New Dog Checklist 

Runaways--First Job 

Advanced Runaways-- Starting to Sniff

Adding the Scent Object

Walkaways and Finding the Start

Training Elements of the Basic Tracking Dog Checklist

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