Separating Cross Tracks for a Schutzhund

Video Transcript

" My name is Phil Hoelcher and I am representing Expert Village.com this morning and we are going to be talking a little bit about the sport of Schutzhund. We are going to try to show you a little bit about all three phases; the tracking, obedience and protection and give you an idea today a little bit of what this sport is all about. This is a young American bulldog and she is following a dirt track here in South Florida. It is a visual track with a lot of cross tracks in it where it has been used many times. So not only does she have to follow her track but she has to separate a lot of visual cross tracks. You will see her head go off a little bit and then come back that was a cross track. This is a little ditch she has to work her way through that and again with this track it is visible, it can be seen but there is many, many, many other tracks also out there that she has to distinguish. Now this dog hasn’t got its first title yet, it is just in training for the first title, so we are giving it some food when it finds an article that was placed out there and the track layer when he laid the track put the articles down and it would be like a piece of leather or a piece of cloth, or a piece of carpeting, wood or metal. It can be about anything that the track layer has touched and carried out on the field. So the dog not only has to find the track, when he finds something that the track layer has put down, then he must indicate that by laying down, standing or even picking it up and bringing it back to the handler. If you would like to talk further about Schutzhund or like to know anything else you can e-mail me at philhoelcher@aol.com. "