Tracking  Seminar

June 26-June 27, 2010

Presenter:                     Ray Desmarais

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This seminar is designed for tracking enthusiasts who have achieved a Tracking Dog or Tracking Dog Excellent title or are close to that goal, and are working towards a VST.  The seminar will be geared to helping handlers better understand the art of reading their dogs while tracking on a VST site.  The seminar will consists of classroom work with a PowerPoint presentation and several sessions in the field.  Each day all 8 teams will work a VST track of approx. 400 - 500 yards with various components in them.



The seminar will begin around noon on Saturday and extend into the late evening on Saturday in order to run the first 8 tracks as an evening/nighttime scenario simulating test conditions.  The following morning the teams will run another track utilizing head cam video with classroom video debriefing of each track.



Registration is limited to 8 dog & handler teams and 15 auditors.