Practical Scent Dog Training [ILLUSTRATED] (Paperback)

by Lou Button (Author)

Editorial Reviews

Product Description
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

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

Product Details

• Paperback: 145 pages
• Publisher: Alpine Pubns Inc; illustrated edition edition (March 1990)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0931866472
• ISBN-13: 978-0931866470
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.7 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #592,996 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

75 of 78 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

By A Customer

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.

38 of 40 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

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

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!

5 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Really practical, July 17, 2004

A Kid's Review

This book was poorly written and I WOULD NOT recomend this book to anyone who wants to seriously go into scent dog training. This book is very vague in detail. This book was not very well organized. I think that this author does not know what she is actually writing about. I think of her not qualified to write about scenting