Blood Tracking Puppy Training

Sometimes we insult the intelligence of our dogs and this is the reason why they become bored with what we ask them to do. A six hour old training line may sound like a very difficult task to us, but when the drops of blood are right there, still giving off scent, it is too easy to be interesting as far as a dog’s mind goes. A six hour blood line is much easier than a scent trail of the same age left by a man or a healthy deer. Once past the raw puppy stage when everything is exciting, you are likely to find that your dogs apply themselves better to a task that requires them to use their abilities. Don’t be afraid to increase the age of your training lines.

Once our puppies know what a bloodline is, we jump from 12 to 24 hours, very quickly. They seldom have problems. We don’t want to move beyond a puppy’s ability, but we find that things work out better if we make it easier by using lots of blood and also by keeping the lines short, under 300 yards. If we work at 24, 36 or 48 hours there is no problem with human scent; by this time it has pretty well dissipated.

Remember lines age much more slowly at night. They also become easier as the dew begins to settle in the evening. My impression is that a 48 hour line is only about 20% harder than a 24 hour line. H13-511 For a long time it seemed to me that a line twice as old should be twice as tough. Now I believe that it a blood line loses its intensity of scent in a way that can best be expressed by a descending, sway-backed curve.

I’d like to hear about your training experiences. It’s by trading experiences that we all learn. You may persuade me that I’m wrong, but as I see it now the big problem in training and live blood tracking is the distractions, not the age of the line.

Sometimes we insult the intelligence of our dogs and this is the reason why they become bored with what we ask them to do. A six hour old training line may sound like a very difficult task to us, but when the drops of blood are right there, still giving off scent, it is too easy to be interesting as far as a dog’s mind goes. A six hour blood line is much easier than a scent trail of the same age left by a man or a healthy deer. Once past the raw puppy stage when everything is exciting, you are likely to find that your dogs apply themselves better to a task that requires them to use their abilities. Don’t be afraid to increase the age of your training lines.

Once our puppies know what a bloodline is, we jump from 12 to 24 hours, very quickly. They seldom have problems. We don’t want to move beyond a puppy’s ability, but we find that things work out better if we make it easier by using lots of blood and also by keeping the lines short, under 300 yards. A00-250 If we work at 24, 36 or 48 hours there is no problem with human scent; by this time it has pretty well dissipated.

Remember lines age much more slowly at night. They also become easier as the dew begins to settle in the evening. My impression is that a 48 hour line is only about 20% harder than a 24 hour line. For a long time it seemed to me that a line twice as old should be twice as tough. Now I believe that it a blood line loses its intensity of scent in a way that can best be expressed by a descending, sway-backed curve.

I’d like to hear about your training experiences. It’s by trading experiences that we all learn. You may persuade me that I’m wrong, but as I see it now the big problem in training and live blood tracking is the distractions, not the age of the line.

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