No pain, no gain! – Incremental development of welding work for the exam

A tenet of ethical hunting is tracking wounded game – hares, pheasants & Co. can be searched for, found, and retrieved by hunting dogs; tracking wounded hoofed game, however, is performed by the tracking team on a leash. This webinar aims to provide inspiration to future tracking teams (and interested teams that follow other scent trails) on how to become a successful team for potential tracking tests or tracking disciplines in more comprehensive tests, through a well-thought-out and dog-friendly structure of the tracking work. We will differentiate between various methods of laying artificial blood trails: e.g., dabbing, squirting, or with a tracking shoe, as they occur in common tests. Step-by-step progression is also paramount in tracking, so the big picture is broken down into its main components – the shot site, the trail, and indicating. All sorts of criteria such as trail length, aging time, surfaces, terrain transitions, weather conditions, and trail progression are practiced separately and gradually reassembled: tracking is diligent work!
Anja Fiedler explains:
• what we should know about working with a dog's nose,
• how marker signals and rewards enhance tracking work,
• what artificial blood trails and tracking disciplines in tests are all about,
• into which components we break down tracking work, and
• what skills dog and human should learn as a team,
• why indicating blood advances following the trail,
• how the dog can indicate at the end of the trail that it has found the game,
• what equipment makes sense for artificial blood trails, and
• how the acquired knowledge can be transferred to other scent trails.
Our Speaker
Anja Fiedler is the head of the dog school "dogable – what (hunting) dogs want." With her diverse seminar program, she travels throughout Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.
More about the speaker: http://www.dogable.de/node/5
Accreditation as further training:
The webinar is recognized by the Veterinary Chambers of Schleswig-Holstein and Lower Saxony as 2.5 hours of further training; our certificate of attendance must be submitted for this. https://www.kosmos.de/teilnahmebestaetigung
Photo credit: Anna Auerbach/ Kosmos