TRAINING GOALS
Teach him to come and, "Alert" when he finds the scent.
Dray's training consists of him coming to get someone, when asked, "What is it?" Is it the, "T" scent? Show me? he will walk his handler back to where the scent item is or to the person the scent item is on and indicate them as the, "target" and give the High 5 sign.
Steps to get Alert:
Step 1: Dog must know the scent for sure.
Step 2: 2 people to work on this with dog
Step 3: One person is in another room, than the person with the scent sample hidden on them
Step 4: Tell Dray, go find Dad"
Step 5: when Dray comes to Dad (or whoever) they say; What is it? Is it the, "T" scent?
Step 6: Dray does his, "Alert" High 5
Step 7: Good Alert Dray, show me....
Step 8: They start walking with Dray back to the scent target
Step 9: Dray indicates where the scent target is
Step 10: Dray does the High 5
Step 11: Click /Treat and major party
Teaches Dray to come and alert to someone else besides just you the handler.Why? If you do not listen to him when he tells you, the dog will pester you for awhile and then go get someone to come and say, "you are not listening to your dog'...you need to do this.
Also, validates the dog understands the job.
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