Intro Police K9 Hard Surface Tracking

Controlled Aggression

In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses:

• Commonalities and differences between tracking and trailing.
• What tracking is and what it isn't.
• Training a dog that is easy to read as he is tracking.
• Tips and tricks for laying a track and evolving the track as your dog progresses.

Key Takeaways:

• Tracking or trailing is tacking to you danger – ask yourself, how do you want to be taken into danger?
• Train and work on fundamentals more often – go back to basics, compartmentalize your training, tighten up the training that way.
• When luring with food, make sure it is significant enough to entice, but not too much to satiate after only a couple tracks.
• Do not put jackpots at the end of the track, that encourages speed, not finding the track.

"You can make some good arguments as to why a particular method might be preferred. A lot of that's going to come down to handler preference of how they want to work their dog, tactical advantage, as well as what your dog is well adapted to." — Jerry Bradshaw

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Show notes by Podcastologist Chelsea Taylor-Sturkie

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