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After some warm-up play time and obedience the other day, I decided to go back to some scent isolation/discrimination exercises with En. I set each search up to be a relatively easy find for her, but I placed distractions in the search area. These included other common scents/ articles I use. Each run, I would rearrange the search area and let it sit for a few. I'd offer her one scent out of the three I had placed and that we commonly work with. She nailed the search 6 times in a row. She ignored the scents that I hadn't offered and strictly went for the match. I switched the offered scents each run, and she didn't get confused even once. I was surprised. I honestly thought it'd be something we'd need to revisit and brush up on, since I've neglected to use this exercise in almost a year. Pretty happy with her work
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Scent discrimination
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Scent discrimination
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Re: Scent discrimination
Way to go En!
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- Location: central MD
Re: Scent discrimination
No, I use her for game recovery. Just do some other exercises when I don't have time or help to lay a trail for her to follow. But scent discrimination is a HUGE part of trailing. She got to be able to pick out the scent of one individual animal and stay on it's track, even when others cross the track.
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Re: Scent discrimination
That is awesome. We're supposed to work on scent discrimination next, to help with Bramble's search task.
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