Challenge your dog with our latest scenting game: Chicken Tracking is your dog using its nose to follow a track being left by a piece of chicken dragged along the ground
How good is your dog at tracking a piece of chicken?
Chicken Tracking is your dog using its nose to follow a track being left by a piece of chicken dragged along the ground. (You can use anything your dog likes – Ham, Chicken, a meaty stick – that you can tie a piece of string to and drag along the ground without it disintegrating!)
How to play the game:
1) Decide and map out where you are going to lay the track. Find somewhere outside – your lawn is a good place to start.
2) Note or place a marker at your start point (for your reference) and leave a tiny piece of the chicken/sausage/ham there.
3) Drag the chicken along the ground gently, for around 5-10 paces (you don’t need to smear bits everywhere). Lay it in more or less a straight line. (Gentle curves are OK but no sharp corners, please.) Leave the rest of the chicken/sausage/ham at the end.
4) Take your dog on a long lead (or two leads linked together – but no extending leads please!) to the start of your track, point to the ground by the start point and ask your dog to “Track on”. Your dog will eat the first bit of food, then he’ll follow the track you laid. Let your dog follow his nose along the track. If they lose the scent at any point, help them by pointing to the ground, but try not to interfere with the dog scenting otherwise.
5) Celebrate with your dog when they reach the end and can snaffle the chicken!
Join our free webinar to discover just how wonderful your dog’s nose is
If you’ve enjoyed the scent games I’ve been sharing with you over the past few weeks, and you’d like to know more, you won’t want to miss our free webinar, “Your Dog Nose Best”, at 7pm on Wednesday 10th February.
You’ll find out:
- How wonderful a dogs nose is
- How you can use your dog’s nose to help with walking nicely on lead
- Why scent might be behind certain doggy behaviours,
- Why we play so many scent games with our own dogs, and
- I’ll also be telling you about an exciting new scenting adventure we’ve planned!
I’d love you to join us. Book your place here.
Keep training and stay safe,
Carol
