Comprehensive Curriculum

Step-by-step lessons to teach you how to confidently teach tracking

In-depth  Learning

Extensive theory lessons along with step by step practical 

Expert Guidance

Receive personalised feedback and tips from experienced instructors

About the Course

Embark on a educational journey with our Tracking Foundations INSTRUCTOR course. Learn to teach pet dogs and their owners the art of tracking for recreational purposes. Gain the skills to lead engaging and enriching tracking sessions that strengthen the bond between pets and their owners. Join us to teach the joy of tracking together! Enroll now to start your adventure.

Meet Your Instructor

Hi there! I'm Alexandra Butler the lead instructor for the Tracking Foundations course. With almost 20 years of experience in Scent work and tracking, I'm here to guide you on this exciting learning journey. I understand the challenges you may face in teaching tracking, and I'm thrilled to share my expertise with you. My goal is to empower you to become a confident and successful tracking instructor.

Course Curriculum

9 Chapters · 97 Lessons

  1. 1

    Introduction

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      Welcome

  2. 2

    Theory Section

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      What is Tracking

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      How our Dogs Track

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      The Tracking Method

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      Choosing your training ground

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      Weather and environmental conditions

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      The Handler

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      The Rewards

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      Building Drive

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      The Indication

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      Trouble shooting

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      Time Scales

  3. 3

    The Dog's Nose

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      Introduction

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      How the Dogs Nose is Structured

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      Sniffing

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      Jacobson Organ

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      Olfactory Epithelium

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      Olfactory Cells

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      Cilia

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      Ethmoid Bone

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      Bowmans Gland

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      Comparison to Humans

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      Alternating

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      Odour issues

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      Chemicals

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      Adaptive Behaviour

  4. 4

    How Scent Moves

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      What is Tracking Odour

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      What happens to the Track Odour

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    Your Workshops and Classes

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      How to Set up your training area

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      What your field should look like

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      How to advertise your classes

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      Opening your classes

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      Opening your workshops - Mini immersion

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      What to give your clients at the end

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      Continuation Classes

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    Using Scent Work for Behavioural Cases

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      Introduction

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      How Scentwork effects the Dog

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      How Scentwork effects the Owners

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      How to include Scent work into a Behavioural plan

  7. 7

    The Tracking Practical Exercises

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      Exercise 1 - Scent ID explained

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      Exercise 1 - Set up

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      Exercise 1 - Run

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      Exercise 2 - First Track explained

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      Exercise 2 - Set up

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      Exercise 2 - Run

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      Exercise 3 - Second Track explained

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      Exercise 3 - Set up

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      When to add the Tracking cue

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      Exercise 3 - Run

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      Exercise 4 - 45 Degree turn explained

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      Exercise 4 - Set up

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      Exercise 4 - Run

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      Exercise 5 - 90 degree turn explained

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      Exercise 5 - Set up

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      Exercise 5 - Run

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      Adding two turns - set up

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      Adding two turns - Run

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      Exercise 6. - The Indication

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      Exercise 6 - The Indication Lessons

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      Exercise 7 - Putting the indication in the track

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      Exercise 7 - Putting the indication into he track. Run

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      Exercise 8 - Foot Step Track explained

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      Exercise 8 Foot step track run

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      Exercise 9 - Putting it all together

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      PDFs

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    Example Workshop

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      Scent ID Explained

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      Scent ID Set Up

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      Scent ID Run

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      Scent ID Finish

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      First Track explained

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      First Track set up

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      Handling explained

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      First Track run

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      Second Track explained

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      Second Track set up

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      Second Track run

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      45 degree turn explained

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      45 degree turn set up

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      45 degree turn run

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      2 x 45 degree bends explained

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      2 x 45 degree turns set up

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      2 x 45 degree turns run

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      90 degree turn explained

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      90 degree turn set up

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      90 degree turn run

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      2 x 90 degree turn explained

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      2 x 90 degree turns set up

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      2 x 90 degree turns run

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      indication explained

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      indication run

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      Adding indication into the track explained

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      Adding indication into the track set up

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      Adding indication into the track run

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      Foot step track explained

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      Foot Step track set up

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      Foot step track run

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    Assessment

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      The Assessment

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