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My mom wasn't off work yet after we tracked, so we decided to do some obedience, which is where you command your dog to do something, like sit or laying down, and see if they do it. If they do it, you reward them with praise or food. If they don't they just don't get treat or praise. Well anyways, we went to the other side of the park to train. Then, all of a sudden, kids just ran out and distracted Rudi. We didn't want to risk Rudi freaking out, so we packed him up in the car and plotted a track for one of my grandmother's student's coming. Then one of the students arrived. Her dog's name was Gosh, a Giant Schnauzer. Very cute and so talented. She would make very clean corners, lay down on an article immediately, and pee on the track to she could lead her handler back if they got lost. I was honestly a little jealous, because I had to command Rudi to lay down on the articles and Gosh just did it on her own. Rudi, even though he always follows back tracks, has no way of marking check points to come back to and re-scent. We just have to work together to find it. Gosh's handler got lucky to have such a good tracking dog! We were also planning on tracking Dessi with child scent, because she had never tracked with child scent before. Child/teenager scent is more dense than adult scent, which kind of means it's very strong and while contained in a trail, it presses against it, not going anywhere, making the scent very strong. This is because dogs can smell hormones, and because children and teenagers are still growing their hormones are crazy. Teenagers and pre-teens produce the strongest scent because of this. The hormone thing also relates back to the theory that dogs can smell fear. Because different hormones can control different emotions, they have different scents! So, when you think about it, dogs can actually smell feelings! How cool is that?! So, anyways, we were going to train Dessi to work with child scent and see how she would react to it. The kids that ran out in front of us earlier, asked if they could watch, and if we were getting the "big dog" out. I told them that they could, and that we were just tracking a little beagle puppy. I told my grandmother this, and she told me to deliver a message to them. "Excuse me, ma'am," I said, tapping the mom on the shoulder. "I was wondering if one of your kids would like to track lay for the beagle puppy we're about to track." The kids started saying, "Mama! I want to do it! Pick me!" to their mom. She said, "Here, Tyler can do it, because he's the oldest." The little kids sighed and complained, but stayed in the car to watch. I took Tyler by the wrist and I said, "Okay, here's what you're going to do. I want you to take off toward that building and hide behind it. You got it?" I asked. He nodded. Lombrozo T. (2013, March 11). Is Having A Child a Rational Decision?. Retrieved from http://media.npr.org/assets/img/2013/03/11/istock-4306066-baby_custom-aee07650b312c1f240125b669c2aa92a7d36e73b-s900-c85.jpg
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