Scent training

sincere113

Any idea's how to do it? I'm having trouble getting the dog interested in the scent. I have a bottle of pheasant scent and injected the dummy with it but the dog has trouble following the scent across a trail. Its driving me cracked!! The dummy I'm using with the scent is the same as that used for retrieves.

Thanks for any help.

deerhunter1

sincere113 wrote: »

Any idea's how to do it? I'm having trouble getting the dog interested in the scent. I have a bottle of pheasant scent and injected the dummy with it but the dog has trouble following the scent across a trail. Its driving me cracked!! The dummy I'm using with the scent is the same as that used for retrieves.

Thanks for any help.

what breed, how old

deeksofdoom

sincere113 wrote: »

Any idea's how to do it? I'm having trouble getting the dog interested in the scent. I have a bottle of pheasant scent and injected the dummy with it but the dog has trouble following the scent across a trail. Its driving me cracked!! The dummy I'm using with the scent is the same as that used for retrieves.

Thanks for any help.

Get yourself a dead pheasant, encourage the dog to play with it and drag it around the garden. Hide the bird around the garden and let the dog find it praise and generally blow the hole off the dog when it finds it. The smellier the bird gets the better. keep your dummies with the pheasant to let the scent get on them.

I'm doing this with an 8 month old ESS at the moment and she is now going mad looking for the bird and following the scent around the garden.

sincere113

deerhunter1 wrote: »

what breed, how old

ESS x fox terrier 6 months

Thanks Deeks

Chesapeake

What I do with the pups is secure a pair of pheasant wings to a dummy and let them play away with it on a daily basis.

sincere113

She has interest in the dummy, its just that I need to encourage her to follow her nose to the bird. If I put her right on top of the dummy or pheasant then she will search and find it - tail wagging. I just need her to learn to follow a scent, she just gets confused.

cavan shooter

even the wings of a pheasant is far better than the bottles scent. do you know anyone who shot a bird recently ty wrap on the wings to the dummy.

pheasntstalker

as cavanshooter said pheasant wings are the biz,or if you can get the whole bird even better,its the way i trained my dog, and the smeller the bird gets the better for the dog;):D

I'm having trouble getting my Brittany (1 yo) into cover. She'll scent fine but won't go in after them to get close enough to point. Any ideas?