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A Dog's Fabulous Sense Of Smell: Step by Step Treat Search Tracking
Anne Lilll Kvam’s newest book contains all the information needed to train your dog to use their fabulous sense of smell to search and track everything from treats and toys to lost keys and people! Kvam provides clear and detailed step-by-step instructions for each exercise, and puts a strong emphasis on the importance of using positive reinforcement in training. Training your dog to use their nose to search and track is a unique activity that you and your dog can enjoy together and will enrich the lives of all participants, human and dog alike!
• Explains in detail how treat search tracking is a perfect activity for all dogs, from puppies to seniors, couch potatoes or dogs with limited mobility to high-energy dogs
• Contains clear explanations of how to get started and what to do if you or your dog get stuck
• Outlines ways to increase the level of challenge while still setting the dog up for success and avoiding frustration or burnout
• Provides a thorough introduction to tracking and discusses how and when to increase difficulty of tracking with the age and length of tracks
• Gives great tips for helpers & handlers for tracking exercises
• Includes photos and true stories of tracking dogs!
Praise from bestselling author Alexandra
Dogs live in a world of smell -- one that most dog people aren't privy to. Anne Lill Kvam's book offers the contemporary dog person the means and method to interact with their dogs in that vitally important, yet oft overlooked area. Her dogs have smelled out water, found lost keys, and located wayward sheep by their odor alone. Kvam's experience and technique combine here to provide something that no other training book does. Dog read this book!
Alexandra Horowitz Senior Research Fellow, Dog Cognition Lab at Barnard College and Author of Inside of a What Dogs See, Smell, and Know .
Anne Lill Kvam began working with scent discrimination dogs in Africa to detect land mines decades ago. She now works with people all over the world to discover the joys of scent work with their dogs through International Dog Trainer Education Courses. Anne lives in Norway where she continues to explore the fabulous sense of smell that dogs possess.
Some of the material in this book previously appeared in the author’s The Canine Kingdom of Scent published in 2012.
• Explains in detail how treat search tracking is a perfect activity for all dogs, from puppies to seniors, couch potatoes or dogs with limited mobility to high-energy dogs
• Contains clear explanations of how to get started and what to do if you or your dog get stuck
• Outlines ways to increase the level of challenge while still setting the dog up for success and avoiding frustration or burnout
• Provides a thorough introduction to tracking and discusses how and when to increase difficulty of tracking with the age and length of tracks
• Gives great tips for helpers & handlers for tracking exercises
• Includes photos and true stories of tracking dogs!
Praise from bestselling author Alexandra
Dogs live in a world of smell -- one that most dog people aren't privy to. Anne Lill Kvam's book offers the contemporary dog person the means and method to interact with their dogs in that vitally important, yet oft overlooked area. Her dogs have smelled out water, found lost keys, and located wayward sheep by their odor alone. Kvam's experience and technique combine here to provide something that no other training book does. Dog read this book!
Alexandra Horowitz Senior Research Fellow, Dog Cognition Lab at Barnard College and Author of Inside of a What Dogs See, Smell, and Know .
Anne Lill Kvam began working with scent discrimination dogs in Africa to detect land mines decades ago. She now works with people all over the world to discover the joys of scent work with their dogs through International Dog Trainer Education Courses. Anne lives in Norway where she continues to explore the fabulous sense of smell that dogs possess.
Some of the material in this book previously appeared in the author’s The Canine Kingdom of Scent published in 2012.
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182 pages, Kindle Edition
Published April 12, 2022
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January 8, 2025
It is aimed as enrichment for pet owners but the author is a search and rescue/mine detection trainer. This is present in clever little adjustments to timing and reward delivery, little “set up for success” games and some advanced tracking/detection techniques disguised in easy to set up games. Very much setting the owners up to succeed without making anything over complicated!
I especially enjoyed the little twists present on each game that let it be adjusted for both puppies, young high energy dogs and old slow dogs. Owning both of those, it was nice having the book account for the entire spectrum. I am looking forward to some of the tracking games within to use over summer while long formal sport tracks aren’t an option due to weather and injury (as I hurt my leg and can’t walk far right now…). The scent work based games within are also quite fun and creative.
I think it would be a great book to recommend to anyone interested in scent-based enrichment and games, or for anyone who is either a scent work or a tracking enthusiast as the games within mesh well with those sports to add some variety and build motivation in varying ways. Freshen things up a little for the owner (or dog) who is stuck in the rut and needs some creativity to break out of it.
Just a fun little book 🙂 I shall recommend it to my tracking group.
I especially enjoyed the little twists present on each game that let it be adjusted for both puppies, young high energy dogs and old slow dogs. Owning both of those, it was nice having the book account for the entire spectrum. I am looking forward to some of the tracking games within to use over summer while long formal sport tracks aren’t an option due to weather and injury (as I hurt my leg and can’t walk far right now…). The scent work based games within are also quite fun and creative.
I think it would be a great book to recommend to anyone interested in scent-based enrichment and games, or for anyone who is either a scent work or a tracking enthusiast as the games within mesh well with those sports to add some variety and build motivation in varying ways. Freshen things up a little for the owner (or dog) who is stuck in the rut and needs some creativity to break out of it.
Just a fun little book 🙂 I shall recommend it to my tracking group.
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