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.