Tracking (dog)

Track work is a term from the Kennel Club. The dog studied with the help of his nose from a track, which is why the term nose job is needed for it.

Fundamentals and principle

The dog as a nasal specialist was used by early man to search. The number of olfactory cells is many times higher than in humans (for more details see house dog, sense of smell ).

There are in relation to the recording of a track two different configurations:

  • Mantrailing - here takes the dog to the actual scent trail of man.
  • Track work works on the scents of the mechanical ground injury.

While pursuing the man trailing scent trail is drifted by the wind and so is adjacent to the mechanical trail, follows the dog at the track work to the smell of the mechanical gauge. The odor profile is created through:

  • Damaged surface,
  • Trampled plants,
  • Micro-organisms.

For police tracking dogs led the individual odor of the " track laying machine " forms ( in the case of application of the perpetrator ) the Leitgeruch, so the smell, which determines the search direction. Here, the dog is based on a complex fragrance image that includes the odor profile of the mechanical gauge.

In contrast to the scent trail that can be maintained under good conditions weeks and really the individual can be assigned, the mechanical track can often pursue only for a relatively short time (a few hours). Cruising other tracks can lead to irritation, as they consist of the same fragrance components. Even a rain shower can cause the track can not be recorded and tracked.

Track work is mainly operated as a sport. In the search for missing persons it is usually disabled. Dogs followed by their nature, rather the scent trail and must be trained specifically for track work.

Track work in dog sports

When track work in the dog sport of a tracklayer a track ( on meadow, arable, ...), the track down. He lays on the track objects from (plastic, wood, leather, 5/1/0, 5 cm) in drafting (passive view ) ( the screening ) either to refer or take the dog has. The handler follows the dog while tracks with 10 meters distance. Depending on the education of the dog, the dog track from a certain time ( 20 min to 3 h ) after Fährtenlegung is drafted.

A distinction is made between self and foreign scent trail: While the self track is laid by the handler who knows thus, a third track is laid at a track layer and the handler is not known.

A track in the dog sport consists of several straight or curved sections, the limbs, and different angles between them. The beginning of a track called finish and is characterized by a departure bar.

Part of training in Schutzhund working dog or that the dog can read a trail and track. This ability is tested differently depending on power level. The training should be applied as widely as possible, in different sites with different soil surfaces. Especially at the beginning of this area should not be too often been entered previously, also meadows with tall grass should be avoided. The dog should be oriented with the nose and not with the eyes.

At the beginning of training, the dog should take up the track some 20 minutes after the laying of the track, for the Tracking Dog test 1 and 2, the track is more then 3 hours old. Depending on the level of training many direction changes are incorporated in different ways. With the higher examinations also Verleitungsfährten come to this: a second tracklayer lays a trail that crosses the original track. The dog must remain on the original track when searching.

The following search behavior is desired for sports dogs:

  • Intense and quiet recording the weather at the base with a deep nose,
  • The dog follows with a deep nose, at a steady pace, intensive course of the track,
  • Positive search behavior,
  • Safe working out the angle
  • Immediate response to the article ( picking up or indicating ),
  • Ability to work independently without the influence of the handler as encouragements or leash corrections.

To check the success of training the dogs undergo → Should tests for hunting dogs, there are specific track tests.

Performance Evaluation in Tracking dogs

One can divide the benefits of track dogs in three categories:

  • Goes tight, the dog takes the track up and follows this, but softens enticements from
  • Drives safely, the dog picks up the scent, ignoring younger and older enticements
  • Moves in, the dog picks up the scent and follow it, ignoring all the enticements.

Whether a dog is drive alone, can be determined by the track cross by Konrad Most. For this purpose, two tracks, each consisting of two legs and a right angle down. Here, the tracks touch at the right angle. The dog should only follow the trail in the search to which he was attached, and no change to the Verleitungsfährte.

Riding hunts

When hunting on horseback behind packs of dogs, the dogs have to follow a trail over several kilometers. For hunts the trail through the wild arises. In drag hunts, however, puts a rider, called Fox, the track. The train consists of either the kick sealing the fox horse or from dilute Heringlake, Anislösung or a similar fragrance solution. There is an equally fast, loud and closed hunting, trail loyal crowd sought with good stamina, which is as strange dog safely.

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