Sometimes it's difficult to find books on the exact subject
you are interested in.
We've collected a selection of books because we know how you feel.
The books we recommend here have been read by our members.
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Enthusiastic Tracking:
The Step-by-Step Training Handbook
Sanders, William (Sil)
Read Book Review by Club Member: Julia Holt
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Glen Johnson’s Tracking Dog: Theory & Method
is a classic of dog training literature.
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Sandy Ganz & Susan Boyd’s Tracking from the
Ground Up is well-written (notwithstanding a somewhat
unrealistically diligent training regimen). The companion
video, Tracking Fundamentals, is a good introduction
to the sport, well produced, and concise.
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The Puppy Tracking Primer by Carolyn Krause
(www.firedog-enterprises.com) is a great little booklet
by an accomplished tracker.
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Julie Hogan & Donna Thompson’s booklet Practical
Tracking for Practically Anyone has some good advice for
the beginner to tdx and vst.
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Lue Button’s Practical Scent Dog Training is a
good general introduction to scent work. Also good: John
Rice & Suzanne Clothier’s pamphlet, Following Ghosts: Developing
the Tracking Relationship.
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Ed Presnall & Christy Bergeon’s Component Training for
Variable Surface Tracking is the first book to cover the vst test.
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Also handy: Betty Mueller’s About Tracking Laying: Guidelines for
Dog Tracking Enthusiasts.
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Gary Patterson’s Tracking: From the Beginning is based largely
on drive theory and is mostly concerned with Schutzhund-style tracking
but has some good hints for akc-style tracking.
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A couple of older books that have some good advice: Go Find! Training
Your Dog to Track by L. Wilson Davis, and Milo Pearsall & Hugh Verbruggen’s
Scent: Training to Track, Search, and Rescue.
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William Syrotuck’s Scent and the Scenting Dog is a technical discussion
of scentwork by one of the founders of U.S. canine SAR training. Roy Hunter’s
Fun Nosework for Dogs has some training games that can help motivate a reluctant
tracker — and amuse a dedicated one.
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