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K9 Scent Training: A Manual for Training Your Identification, Tracking and Detection Dog (K9 Professional Training Series)
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About K9 Scent Training: A Manual For Training Your
Product Description Whether you’re searching for drugs or a missing person, K9 Scent Training will improve your K9 team’s capabilities in the field. Use proven techniques to train your dog for: Scent identification line-ups to indicate a scent connection between crime-scene evidence and a suspect. Tracking along a wide variety of track types, including the cold track, the broken-off track and tracks that run over or under cross-tracks. Detection work for searches in buildings, vehicles, open terrain and more. In this must-have guide for SAR teams and police K9 trainers and handlers, Dr. Resi Gerritsen and Ruud Haak present everything you need to know to build or improve a scent training program. Scent training involves high-stakes work, and in the case of a search for a missing person, the right training for your K9 can mean the difference between life and death. Beginning with the science behind odors and how dogs perceive them, Resi and Ruud show you how to harness that knowledge to eliminate training problems and maximize your dog’s potential. You’ll learn how to start scent training for young dogs using simple exercises before building up to more complex training. Finally, using techniques they’ve perfected over decades, Resi and Ruud share their specialized, step-by-step programs for advanced scent identification training and tracking. Review Provides beginners and pros alike with a handy guide to what you need to know about this fascinating activity. ( The Bark) This is by far one of the best scent books for dogs that I have reviewed. All dogs live in a world of scent, and therefore every dog owner can benefit from this book. (Susan Bulanda) About the Author Dr. Resi Gerritsen and Ruud Haak are world-renowned specialists in the field of dog work and the authors of more than 30 titles on dog training. They serve as training directors and international judges for the International Red Cross Federation, the United Nations, the International Rescue Dog Organization and the Federation Cynologique Internationale (FCI). Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Introduction The way dogs experience the world differs from that of most humans in that olfaction replaces vision as the dominant modality of sensation. Knowing this, we have made and continue to make use of our four-legged friends’ exceptional ability to perceive nonvisual cues in order to supplement our own sensory capabilities. In some cases, such as hunting, people rely on dogs’ innate patterns of behavior to achieve the desired results. In other situations, however, such as in detection of odors, dog handlers use conditioning techniques to train their dogs to work alongside and communicate with them. For example, police dogs detect odor traces or substances. When committing a crime, an offender comes into direct contact with his victim or with objects. Consequently, he often leaves traces (fingerprints, footprints, marks left by objects). Crime-scene investigators throughout the world today give increasing importance to the physical changes to a crime scene made by scent prints. They also analyze traces of substances found at a scene, on a victim, or on an offender. Scientific progress in recent decades has led to a reduction in the amount of odorous substance investigators require for successful analysis. This in turn has led to the possibility of carrying out analyses on microtraces (microscopic amounts of substances). A human smell is a particular type of microtrace. Based on our experience with tracker dogs, we believe that an offender can be identified by the particular smells he leaves behind at the crime scene. Each person has a distinctive smell; this has been proven by experience as well as by experiments using various apparatus. Mass spectrography has also been used to analyze and identify human odors. The identification of offenders by analyzing traces of their odors has increased in importance as it has been scientifically
