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Fun Nosework For Dogs - Teaching Your Dog to Enjoy Using His Nose book by Roy Hunter
While working for the Metro Police as a senior police dog instructor, Roy had many occasions to depend on his dog's amazing scenting ability. Now you can benefit and learn dozens of games to relieve boredom, teach important skills and build confidence. From tracking to scent discrimination, Roy shows how to train your dog and have fun yourself. This book will teach your dog to enjoy using his nose, his primary source of information.
About Roy Hunter-
Roy Hunter knows a little something about dogs. Even after forty years with them, he is quick to tell you that he is not an expert and he is still learning from all the people and dogs who flocked to his classes, seminars, courses and games days near his home n Stambourne, England and throughout Britain.
Retired from the Metropolitan Police Force in London after twenty-five years (sixteen in the Dogs Section- at one time Deputy Chief Instructor at the largest Police Dog Establishment in Europe), Roy finished his fifteenth consecutive year coming to the US in 1998.
Roy has given seminars all over the world on all types of dog training from Police Work, Obedience Instructor's Courses, Nosework Courses, Fun and Games, Agility, Competitive Obedience (he is Working Trials Judge)...you name it.
In 1995, he published his first book in the United States-
Fun and Games with Dogs and
FUNctional Dog Training... all published by Howln Moon Press.
Table of Contents:
- Introduction to the Second Edition
- Introduction to Nosework
- Basic Nosework Training
- Scent Discrimination
- Identifying Individual Humans
- Training Scent Discrimination
- Advanced Scent Discrimination
- Your Different Scent Locations
- Discriminating Between Body Parts
- Your Scent vs. Another Person's
- Searching for Articles
- Training the Article Search
- Searching for Large (Irretrieveable Articles)
- Hunt the Thimble
- Searching for People
- Searching Large Areas
- Building Searches
- Kitchen Cupboard Fun!
- Scenting Essences
- Distinguishing Between Essences
- Discriminating Between Hot and Cold Water Taps
- Demonstrating Your Dog's Abilities
- Playing Cards
- Training to Play with Cards
- Playing with Dominoes
- How to Use "Choice" to Your Advantage
- Chess Pieces
- Tracking- The Roy Hunter Way
- Equipment for Tracking Training
- The Figure Eight Tracking Harness
- Reading Your Dog
- The Line Drill
- Track Laying Skills
- Practice Tracks
- Track Number One: The Ten Yard Track
- Using Food in Tracking Training
- Track Number Two: The Twenty Yard Track
- The Thirty Yard Track
- The Second Day's Track
- The Rest of the Week
- Week Two
- Week Three and Beyond
- Turns
- Intermediate Articles and Article Identification
- Tracking on Different Terrain
- Obstacles on the Track
- Track Laying Do's and Dont's
- Cross Tracks
- Fun with Cross Tracks
- Laying Your Own Cross Tracks
- Train For Difficulties
- Hard Surface Tracking
- Training Hard Surface Tracking
- Distraction Training
- In Closing
- Appendix: Foundation Exercises
- Alert By Barking
- Play Rewards
- Retrieving
- Tug-of-War
- Walking a Dog on Either Side
Fun Nosework For Dogs, Roy Hunter, Second Edition, 2003, 116 pages, softcover.
