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Training Your Dog to Track: When you train a dog to track, you are teaching them to follow the unique ground scent left by a target, which could be a human or animal. This type of training contrasts with man trailing, where the dog relies more on air scenting, or detection work, where a dog searches an area or person for a target scent. Tracking hones a dog's ability to follow the disturbance left by footsteps, rather than airborne scent. At Anglian Dog Works, our tracking programme teaches dogs that the fastest way to a find is by following footsteps. As...