Grafton Dog Obedience Club
Track and Search Workshop - February 2014
Grafton Dog Obedience Club, in New South Wales, hosts tracking trials on a grazing property at Fineflowers, north-west of Grafton. The club's tracking members were very keen to learn more about track and search which is a relatively new discipline for dogs, who have earned a Tracking Champion title. As the club has a close affinity with the Queensland tracking fraternity, Coral Pethers and Debby Lamprecht, members of the Evergreen Tracking Club and tracking judges, were invited to conduct a workshop at the Grafton showgrounds.
On the weekend, short tracks were conducted to demonstrate that it is just as easy for the dogs to follow the scent trail of a person lost in highly contaminated areas in town, as it is for them to follow the scent in the bush. One exercise required the dogs to follow a track and acknowledge the correct tracklayer at the end of the track. The tracklayer was sitting on a chair with two other decoy tracklayers.
On the weekend, short tracks were conducted to demonstrate that it is just as easy for the dogs to follow the scent trail of a person lost in highly contaminated areas in town, as it is for them to follow the scent in the bush. One exercise required the dogs to follow a track and acknowledge the correct tracklayer at the end of the track. The tracklayer was sitting on a chair with two other decoy tracklayers.
Socks patiently waits his turn to track.
Heading back to camp after Pixie nailed her track.
Animated discussion about what we observed on the tracks.
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Pixie nearly to the end of her track.
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