Arn Monster attended his first Tracking workshop with Scent Dogs Australia today. We started off working with Emma and showed everyone how much the little man loves his food, and introduced him to the person who was going to act as his tracklayer for the morning. Arn worked out pretty quickly that the game was about finding food on socks, and using his nose to find more food! Unfortunately, this did result in the little man having a good sniff through the forest on his way to meet his new tracklayer, even though his tracklayer had a big bucket of food waiting for him!
In the afternoon we headed over to Sonja's group where Arn got to try out a couple of short track. He really enjoyed snacking and tacking his time along the first track but started to use his nose towards the end to find the socks & tracklayer. On his second track we tried out his new harness which made a big difference handling wise. Much more comfortable for the two of us. He was really on the ball with his second track until about half way through where he got a bit off track and wasn't exactly sure what he was supposed to be doing! He did manage to get himself back on the way & made it to the tracklayer for his reward.
In the afternoon we headed over to Sonja's group where Arn got to try out a couple of short track. He really enjoyed snacking and tacking his time along the first track but started to use his nose towards the end to find the socks & tracklayer. On his second track we tried out his new harness which made a big difference handling wise. Much more comfortable for the two of us. He was really on the ball with his second track until about half way through where he got a bit off track and wasn't exactly sure what he was supposed to be doing! He did manage to get himself back on the way & made it to the tracklayer for his reward.