The Koehler Method of Training Tracking Dogs
William R. Koehler “The Koehler Method of Training Tracking Dogs"
Howell Books | 1984-06 | ISBN: 0876057660 | 143 pages | PDF (scanned) | 4,75 MB
Howell Books | 1984-06 | ISBN: 0876057660 | 143 pages | PDF (scanned) | 4,75 MB
Review
Interesting Read for Koehler Fans
It's a specific exercise that's fun to train and fun to do ; and based on Koehler's forced fetch, in the Open Obedience book. If you haven't trained that way, probably you won't get anywhere with this book.
It works. You get a dog that will start on a track and stay on it, even if it's crossed by more interesting scents ; and take it as engaging work.
That said, I think Koehler didn't actually try running the exercises he gives, which are well out of the range of real possibility, time-wise. I don't think anybody could follow them out for long after the first few exercises.
However, with the forced fetch approach taught at the beginning, you can easily extend the tracks with the same correction principle on your own, and it works on your Koehler-trained dog.
I always recommend two essays from Vicki Hearne's ``Adam's Task,'' the chapters on Washoe and How To Say Fetch, for an understanding of Koehler and what he's achieving. If what she writes makes sense to you, you can use Koehler. If not, look elsewhere. You'll certainly misunderstand him.
Worked for my three Dobermans.
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