Practical Scent Dog Training [Paperback]

Lue Button (Author), Lou Button (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1, 1990

This guide will help you teach any dog the basics of tracking, air scenting, or how to have fun finding objects. *Five games to prepare your dog for scent work *Planning training sessions that promote progress

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About the Author

Button is a long-time trainer with a special interest in all forms of scent work.

Product Details

• Paperback: 160 pages
• Publisher: Alpine Pubns (January 1, 1990)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0931866472
• ISBN-13: 978-0931866470
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #390,802 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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79 of 82 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Possibly the best general book on training dogs to scent., November 26, 1997

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This review is from: Practical Scent Dog Training (Paperback)

This is an excellent book. It's a step by step practical training guide for air scent, evidence search, disaster search, and tracking tests. You can start with very young puppies. Not only that, but many of the training methods outlined can be used just for fun, even if you're not in search and rescue. I recommend this book to everyone interested in seeing their dogs use their noses, whether they are interested in actually doing search and rescue, just want to know a little more about SAR, or want to play around with the concepts.

39 of 41 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Recommended for anyone with an interest in "how things work", November 26, 2001

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Rick B. (St. Petersburg, Florida United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Practical Scent Dog Training (Paperback)

This book covers all of the basics of tracking and air-scenting (search and rescue). It is very practical, readable and well laid out. You can use its exercises for teaching your toy poodle to find your lost keys, to prepare for the AKC Tracking Dog tests, or to begin SAR training.
Even if you do not have a dog, Practical Scent Dog Training is fascinating reading. There are clear explanations of how scent is deposited (I always wondered) and diagrams showing how it is effected by environmental conditions. I had no idea that dogs were capable of doing some of the things that this book details!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Neat training book for dogs!!, October 29, 2010

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This review is from: Practical Scent Dog Training (Paperback)

I knew absolutely nothing about scent training but this nice little book was a good primer and I was able to get my dogs following scent, using the techniques presented here. I am a horse trainer, not a dog trainer, so I wasn't sure if I could do it, but it works!!