Ever since I attended a drafting seminar in New Brunswick way back in 2007 (put on by the Bernese Mountain Dog Club of Canada I think), I have been meaning to make a cart for Bear…I mean how hard can it be right? I found some cart plans that made sense to me on-line atContinue reading “Woodworking Weekend – Making a Cart (Part 1)”
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Bear Tracks! Week Three
I learned two very important things this week that will help me on blind tracks. And both items relate to… Body Language & Handling Very Important Thing #1: Bear works better when the track is down wind. I accidentally set a track with a leg up wind and he did lots of drifting back andContinue reading “Bear Tracks! Week Three”
Bear Tracks! Week Two
This was a gruelling tracking week as the plan we are following had six tracks a day! Now this might not sound like a lot when you imagine doing six 20 foot tracks but we gradually moved from a 5 meter track to 400 meter tracks which, takes a LOT of time! From a training perspective though, this meansContinue reading “Bear Tracks! Week Two”
Bear Tracks! Week One
The first week of the rest of our tracking lives… Bear and I attended a tracking seminar last fall and had a lot of fun, learned a lot and really enjoyed watching different dogs work. We did maybe about 2 weeks of tracking last year before it got cold, I got busy…you all know how it goes.Continue reading “Bear Tracks! Week One”
Ayoka Bubar BA, CPDT-KA 