The Straightest Path is Jeff Schettler's newest and most exciting release. With straight talk and experienced-based training methods, Schettler explains step by step how to train a man-trailing dog from puppyhood to life-saving companion. Placing strong emphasis on learning to read your dog, Jeff talks about common mistakes, how to handle a long line, how to recognize when your dog has lost the trail, and what to do about it.
A MUST- READ FOR BOTH NOVICE AND SENIOR K-9 HANDLERS
Integrates the art and science of canine trailing
real-life examples based on Jeff's experience as a police K-9 handler
cutting-edge trailing exercises and techniques
graphic descriptions of hard-learned lessons during the exciting career of a K-9
handler.
PRODUCT DETAILS:
Paperback, large format 8.5 x 11
208 pages, color photographs, diagrams, index
Author: JEFF SCHETTLER
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Jeff's dog training methods have been featured on CNN, ABC, Unsolved Mysteries, and MythBusters TV series. A retired police K-9 handler who was attached to the FBI's Hostage Rescue Teams' K-9 Assistance Program, Jeff has worked hundreds of trailing casess across the U.S. Since retiring from the police force he founded TacticalTrackerTeams and is a specialist in tactical trailing applications. He also is co-founder of Georgia K9 Training Center, LLC, offering a variety of dog training services to fit the needs of civilian, law enforcement and search and rescue dog trainers and handlers. His trailing training clinics are popular throughout the U.S. and will soon be expanding to Europe.
Jeff trained under well-known manhunters including Glenn Rimbey, John Lutenberg, and Jerry Nichols. He has recently diversified his work to include pioneering work in training dogs to search for explosives and narcotics and training service dogs for those with special needs such as autism. For more information on the author go to www.GAK9.com
K-9 TRAILING CONTENTS
Foreword by Michael J. Decker
Preface
1. Trailing Versus Tracking
2. Choosing a K-9
3. Trailing Gear
4. Trailing Scent Forms
5. Environmental Effects on Scent
6. The Three P's
7. Trail Layers and Laying Trails
8. Fire Trails
9. Adding Distance, Turns, and Obstacles
10. The Handler's Arch Nemesis: Distractions
11. Scent Discrimination
12. Age of the Trail and Other Variables
13. Streams and Rivers
14. Surface Transitions: Hard Surfaces
15. Extra Exercises
Eplogue
Index
