At Extreme K-9 all of our Mantrailing courses are designed to individually assess the dog/handler team’s current level of performance and subsequently establish a training plan to achieve their desired performance goals. In an effort to meet our student's training needs, and to provide the most convenient training options for our students, we offer our Mantrailing training in a variety of course formats. These include our organized seminars (Mega Trailing Week), local training (Group classes), and Private coaching. All of our Mantrailing courses offer one-on-one instruction utilizing experienced, seasoned instructors. The subjects covered in all of our Mantrailing courses include:
- Scent theory
- Environmental and climatic effects on scent, pool-scent
- Scent discrimination:
- Scent article collection, handling, and preservation
- Starting trails from unusual scent articles
- Reliability on the trail:
- Urban trailing
- Vehicle trails
- Night trails
- Developing a solid ID:
- Courtroom testimony
- Training records
- Trailing dog SOP
- Initial interview techniques
- How to get your dog utilized
- Problem solving
- Reading your dog
- Physical conditioning
- Equipment and gear, and more.
Mega Trailing
We are proud to offer this comprehensive 5 day course which is designed to enable the dog/handler team achieve their planned performance goals through the above outlined methods. This course is appropriate for handler/dog teams of all experience levels, from the relatively new handler to the seasoned veteran. To assure the highest level of quality training we limit class sizes to maintain a maximum student-to-instructor ratio of 5 to 1.
Course Fee: $550.00 per dog/handler team.