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Summary: Learn how to setup, organize and lay the training tracks for Schutzhund in this free video.
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Phil Hoelcher Phil Hoelcher has been a Schutzhund trainer, competitor, and movie animal trainer for more than 25 years. He was the DVG Schutzhund III winner in 1983,1984, 1... read more
My name is Phil Hoelcher and I am representing Expert Village.com this morning and we are going to be talking a little bit about the sport of Schutzhund. We are going to try to show you a little bit about all three phases; the tracking, obedience and protection and give you an idea today a little bit of what the sport is all about. This is going to be a track for a dog that is a little bit more advanced that has a Schutzhund 2 title and what I am trying to work on is the dog making decisions and actually working the track without any help from me at all. So the track I lay is going to be not so straight. It is going to have a lot of little turns and bends in it, just to make sure that I can keep the dog constantly thinking and working, so it cannot fall asleep what we say on the track because the track is very straight and the dog just gets to going straight and fast. Now here is my first article going in; we are going to try to hide that a little bit so she can’t see it very well and then we are going on. Here is some cross tracks that I am going through, so I want to make sure the dog on its own decides which the right track is. There is another cross track that I am going through. If you would like to talk further about Schutzhund or like to know anything else, you can e-mail me at philhoelcher@aol.com.