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Scent work

I got inspired by Darwin's key finding abilities of my mantrailing instructor's dog and I started to train my dogs to find my key. I'm training the indication ATM and it's going very well, especially for Dougal. I assume that's because they did scent work before.

Now my dilemma is the cue - shall I try the same one as they had in scent work (search)? Or should I introduce another one? (You could argue that instead of starting from scratch I should have just introduced it as a new scent but I really want a solid and sticky indicaton.)

The problem is that they have so many cues, scent and track for trailing, the Hungarian form of find it for finding food...

I think I's get confused if I'd introduced a new one. And Dougal is going deaf anyway.

What do you guys think?

In the video you'll see Dougal trying different things like mouthing and pawing the object. It's quite normal for him, I'm going to use extinction. With him I want to go for duration now anyway

The trickier thing is that Dee is too quick, she looks away before the food hits the ground so I'm a but stuck as I can't add duration just yet... Or who knows, I might give it a go and see what happens

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