Hard Surface / Urban Tracking Course

Led by renowned instructor Justin Rigney, students will learn the very beginning, foundational techniques and concepts to produce reliable and proficient hard surface, urban tracking in a dog who exhibits the proper drives, motivation and nerves. Additional benefits to this class include, but are not limited to: 

• Breaking down several training systems and techniques, analyzing the advantages and disadvantages of each
• How dogs learn and producing a learning design for success
• Marker training
• Reading and understanding tracking behavior
• Environmental factors and conditions affecting tracking
• Problem solving and diagnosis
• Classical and Operant conditioning
• Equipment
• Capabilities and limitations of K9 tracking