Post by Robert on Dec 14, 2005 16:14:21 GMT -5
From a farm collie board:
From a farm collie board <http://list.uvm.edu/archives/farmcollie.html>:
If you want to do tracking for a title with a non-AKC breed you can also do schutzhund tracking. Any breed of dog, including mixed breeds and unregistered dogs, are welcome. Opportunities in America to title in schutzhund tracking are about as common as in AKC tracking. Plus, in schutzhund tracking there's no risk as there is in AKC tracking that more people will sign up than can be accommodated, causing you to miss out during the draw.
Schutzhund tracking is not pass/fail as in AKC tracking.... it's scored from 0-100 (70 is the cutoff for passing). Schutzhund tracking requires more nose in each footstep precision than AKC tracking, so the training is usually a bit different. Plus, your dog first needs to pass the schutzhund BH test (traffic steady companion dog) before being eligible to compete in schutzhund tracking trials. The BH is roughly comparable to an AKC CD and CGC combined. You do not need to do any of the schutzhund protection training if you want to focus on tracking.
There are several different schutzhund tracking titles. In increasing difficulty, they are: TR1, TR2, TR3, FH1, FH2, IPO-FH. They range from 300 paces to 2000 paces in length, with 2 corners or as many as 7 corners, with 2 articles to as many as 7 articles for the dog to find.
There is also the North American FH1 Championship each year, for schutzhund tracking dogs.
I started training my ES in schutzhund tracking when he was 8 weeks old. He was very good at it. By the time he was 8 months old he was doing Schutzhund 3 level tracking (roughly comparable in difficulty to an AKC TD). I had plans to title him through at least the FH1 (roughly comparable in difficulty to an AKC TDX), and perhaps compete with him. We stopped doing schutzhund tracking after my tracking coach told me my dog is too good to waste on sport tracking... we should be doing Search & Rescue instead. So that's what we do now.
From a farm collie board <http://list.uvm.edu/archives/farmcollie.html>:
If you want to do tracking for a title with a non-AKC breed you can also do schutzhund tracking. Any breed of dog, including mixed breeds and unregistered dogs, are welcome. Opportunities in America to title in schutzhund tracking are about as common as in AKC tracking. Plus, in schutzhund tracking there's no risk as there is in AKC tracking that more people will sign up than can be accommodated, causing you to miss out during the draw.
Schutzhund tracking is not pass/fail as in AKC tracking.... it's scored from 0-100 (70 is the cutoff for passing). Schutzhund tracking requires more nose in each footstep precision than AKC tracking, so the training is usually a bit different. Plus, your dog first needs to pass the schutzhund BH test (traffic steady companion dog) before being eligible to compete in schutzhund tracking trials. The BH is roughly comparable to an AKC CD and CGC combined. You do not need to do any of the schutzhund protection training if you want to focus on tracking.
There are several different schutzhund tracking titles. In increasing difficulty, they are: TR1, TR2, TR3, FH1, FH2, IPO-FH. They range from 300 paces to 2000 paces in length, with 2 corners or as many as 7 corners, with 2 articles to as many as 7 articles for the dog to find.
There is also the North American FH1 Championship each year, for schutzhund tracking dogs.
I started training my ES in schutzhund tracking when he was 8 weeks old. He was very good at it. By the time he was 8 months old he was doing Schutzhund 3 level tracking (roughly comparable in difficulty to an AKC TD). I had plans to title him through at least the FH1 (roughly comparable in difficulty to an AKC TDX), and perhaps compete with him. We stopped doing schutzhund tracking after my tracking coach told me my dog is too good to waste on sport tracking... we should be doing Search & Rescue instead. So that's what we do now.