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I just love tracking! I do it all the time everywhere I go but only occasionally does it seem to really
please my humans. That's when we're in the woods. I'm on a long leash but I still get to go wherever I want
and naturally I like to follow the scent of ... blood! I don't get to do this enough because my humans think
it's too much work. I think it's me who makes all the work and pretty quick too, so why are they complaining? Human comment: Tracking for hunting dogs actually is quite time consuming for the humans. It all starts the previous day when you make the track in the woods by dragging a blood drained sponge in the woods. The track includes a start, a few right angled corners and the finish where there is preferably a rabbit (preferably dead). When the track is at least 12h old (open class) the dog tracks it. (Paljon tietoa MEJÄstä SNJ:n sivuilla) |
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Here I'm all excited already. I definitely know what the long leash and the harness stand for... | |||
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At the starting point my human tries to tell me the obvious. This is where it starts. I'm very eager and the patience is long gone... | |||
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| After some possible initial problems I start working and the rest of the gang follows. I know they now rely on my skills. Without me they probably wouldn't even find their way out of the woods... Truth to speak, all I care about at this point is the scent that is going to lead me to the bunny... |
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Here my human is getting some good advice from a pro (Markku Huttunen). She learns that she has to trust me, be quiet and let me work... | |||
| Here's the finish, a real bunny. I love bunnies, but I do suspect that this isn't the animal who bled in the woods and that maybe we should keep on tracking to find the right injured animal, but then my humans get all happy and we leave the forest. |
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