{"id":32,"date":"2010-11-15T01:21:51","date_gmt":"2010-11-15T08:21:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluefairyotterhounds.com\/?p=32"},"modified":"2012-09-11T21:40:05","modified_gmt":"2012-09-12T04:40:05","slug":"tracking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluefairyotterhounds.com\/?p=32","title":{"rendered":"Tracking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/br><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:justify\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/bluefairyotterhounds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/IMG_2898.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-766\" title=\"Starr - Beach Tracking\" src=\"https:\/\/bluefairyotterhounds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/IMG_2898-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bluefairyotterhounds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/IMG_2898-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/bluefairyotterhounds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/IMG_2898-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/bluefairyotterhounds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/IMG_2898-59x59.jpg 59w, https:\/\/bluefairyotterhounds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/IMG_2898-141x141.jpg 141w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>Tracking is our next frontier.\u00a0 Otterhounds are known for their excellent sense of smell and tracking comes to them naturally. After all, the toughest part of getting their attention is to get their nose off the ground.\u00a0 The trick is, can they follow the sent you ask them to follow.<\/p>\n<p>The neat part about tracking is that the dog is in charge and\u00a0the handler is simply at the end of the tracking line.\u00a0 Very different from obedience training where the handler provides the directions.\u00a0\u00a0Tracking requires comitment and practice.  <a href=\"https:\/\/bluefairyotterhounds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/2016.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-767\" title=\"Leeloo's Nose\" src=\"https:\/\/bluefairyotterhounds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/2016-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bluefairyotterhounds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/2016-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/bluefairyotterhounds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/2016-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/bluefairyotterhounds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/2016-59x59.jpg 59w, https:\/\/bluefairyotterhounds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/2016-141x141.jpg 141w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>With all Blue Fairy adventures, including raising puppies, tracking is still on our &#8220;to do&#8221; list.  We do take classes from time to time and the dogs seem to get the concept and enjoy their time in the field.\u00a0It&#8217;s fascinating to watch them work!  We can only hope we can keep up with their noses.\u00a0 It\u2019s going to be a wild ride!<\/p>\n<p>For more information on AKC tracking, please refer to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a title=\"Tracking\" href=\"http:\/\/www.akc.org\/events\/tracking\/index.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">AKC Companion Events &#8211; Tracking<\/a><\/span>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tracking is our next frontier.\u00a0 Otterhounds are known for their excellent sense of smell and tracking comes to them naturally. After all, the toughest part of getting their attention is to get their nose off the ground.\u00a0 The trick is, can they follow the sent you ask them to follow. The neat part about tracking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":834,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adventures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluefairyotterhounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluefairyotterhounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluefairyotterhounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluefairyotterhounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluefairyotterhounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/bluefairyotterhounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":769,"href":"https:\/\/bluefairyotterhounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions\/769"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluefairyotterhounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluefairyotterhounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluefairyotterhounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluefairyotterhounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}