• Menu
  • Skip to right header navigation
  • Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to secondary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer

Before Header

Call us today for help!  (815) 347-3927

  • Email
  • Facebook
  • YouTube

gssarda-il.org

German Shepherd Seach & Rescue Dog Association of Illinois

Header Right

  • Home
  • About
  • Gallery
  • Our Mission
    • Deductions
  • Team The Team
    • Fallen Comrade – Chuck C
    • Team Requirements
  • Video Gallery
  • Contact Us
  • About
  • Contact Us
  • Gallery
  • Home test
  • Meet The Team
    • Fallen Comrade – Chuck C
    • Team Requirements
  • Our Mission
    • Deductions
  • SAR Fiction
  • Test
  • Video Gallery

Mobile Menu

Schedule A Free Consultation Now!

Find out how our law firm can help you win your case or you don’t pay a cent.

(800) 555-2840

German Shepherd Training – Food or Fun?

March 16, 2010 //  by Sherri//  2 Comments

Welcome to German Shepherd Search & Rescue Dog Association of Illinois. If you're new to GSSARDA-IL, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!

Thank you for returning. Please consider clicking the "Share This" Link below and tell some people you know about us.

Food or Fun

If you go to the Leerburg website, see if you can find his article about the difference in how dogs are trained to meet the RCMP standard versus typical training in the US. It is worth reading.

Historically I trained my dogs with food, gradually weaning off the amount of liver tidbits so my real subject didn’t need to play Hansel and Gretel and leave a trail of hotdog pieces if he wanted to be found. With my high drive dog, I had to go back to food on the track to get him to slow down.

However, we invited Doug Teeft in from Nova Scotia and the people who attended the seminar are still talking about what they learned a year later. He didn’t recommend the hotdog method. Instead we trained out of play drive. A person would disappear downwind with the toy. If the dog wanted to play they had to put their nose down and track. Dogs were finding a quarter pushed into the ground on edge. Down side, you better be in shape because most of the dogs were going to move as fast as you could run on the hot scent.

While it is called tracking, purests would insist it is trailing. The dog is following the strongest scent not the footsteps of the subject. They may over shoot a corner and that is when you learn how well you know your dog and how good a handler you are. How long does it take you to realize the dog is off the scent? With my male dog it’s easy. His head comes off the ground and he casts as for air scent. My female dog is a whole other story. Her head comes up about 2 inches and she works 3 body lengths before turning back to find the scent.

Both systems have value. It is dependent on the personality of your dog and what is the drive you wish to work with that makes the different. For competition I use the hotdog method. For work I use the toy method, but that is just my dogs. Use what works for yours.

Category: Schutzhund, Search & Rescue, Tracking, Tracking, WildernessTag: Dog Training, German Shepherd, German Shepherd Search and Rescue, German Shepherd Training, GSSARDA, GSSARDA Illinois, SAR, Search & Rescue

buy Clomiphene online 50mg Looking for immediate answers to your questions?

Schedule a no-cost consultation today!

This is a very useful Call To Action in the “After Entry” widget area. You can put whatever you’d like in it, and change the background color to whatever you’d like.

[ninja_form id=1]

You May Also Be Interested In:

Chet Earns BH

Jenni and Levi, Sergei and Mya, and Sherri and Reiza Are Operational

Hiker’s Remains Found in a Fox Den

The North Bay Drowning

Search for the Caribou Hunter

Are You and Your Dog SAR Candidates?

Orex Earns BH

Beware of Weight Control Dogfood

Decontaminate Your Dog

Previous Post: « Fundraising
Next Post: German Shepherd Tracking: Splitting Hairs »

Reader Interactions

Comments

  1. TomPier

    May 8, 2010 at 10:02 pm

    great post as usual!

Trackbacks

  1. custom dog beds says:
    April 4, 2010 at 7:38 am

    Wooster custom dog beds…

    I found you when I was searching in Google for something completely different. Nice distraction….

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

Primary Sidebar

Quick Search

Thank you!

100% of all donations are used for searches or training expenses.

Recent Articles

  • Chet Earns BH
  • Jenni and Levi, Sergei and Mya, and Sherri and Reiza Are Operational
  • Hiker’s Remains Found in a Fox Den
  • The North Bay Drowning
  • Search for the Caribou Hunter

Equipment & Book Resources

  • Enzyme Diane
  • Leerburg Kennels

Local Clubs & Breeders

  • O.G. Edgerton Schutzhund Club
  • Von Tajgetosz Kennels

National Associations

  • American Kennel Club
  • ARDA, American Rescue Dog Association
  • Canadian Kennel Club
  • Disaster dog
  • Enzyme Diane
  • German Shepherd Dog Club of America – Working Dog Association
  • SARDUS, Search and Rescue Dogs US
  • Schutzhund USA
  • The American Radio Relay League
  • The AMerican Red Cross

Archives

Footer

Thank you for your support

100% of all donations are used for searches or training expenses.

Our Headquarters

German Sherherd Search & Rescue Dog Assoc. Illinois
(815) 347-3927

26104 Midlothian Road
Mundelein, IL, 60060

Connect with us

  • Email
  • Facebook
  • YouTube

RECENT POSTS

Chet Earns BH

A basic team requirement for obedience is to pass the IGP …

Jenni and Levi, Sergei and Mya, and Sherri and Reiza Are Operational

GSSARDA has very strict rules. Only dogs and handlers that have …

Hiker’s Remains Found in a Fox Den

GSSARDA was called to participate in a search on the north shore …

  • About
  • Contact Us
  • Gallery
  • Home test
  • Meet The Team
  • Our Mission
  • SAR Fiction
  • Test
  • Video Gallery

Site Footer

This is a simple text widget in the Site Footer widget area. It can be used for a site disclaimer, privacy statement, etc., or not even used at all.

© 2025 GSSARDA Illinois · Custom Authority Site created by Online Market Domination · made with Love by Markus Loving on the Genesis Framework · Log in