Tracking
Interactive Tracking Workshop
September 28, 2025 in Grand Isle, Vt.
The day will start with a classroom phase and a demonstration. New working teams will have hands on practice in the field with your dog. One dog per handler, please. We will be available to help you start your dog with tracking. Field work could require walking through high grass over uneven terrain. Participants should be in reasonably good health and physical condition.
Seminar portion will be at the Simms Point location, then to fields for starting dogs with tracking for new dogs, and working with all those previously started dogs to solve problems, further your tracking adventures, teaching you how to lay a track and FIND your track by using a mapping process.
Participants will leave the seminar with the knowledge of basic scent theory, tracking test regulations and requirements, basic interpretation of a dog’s actions while tracking and common problems and solutions.
A confirmation with directions to seminar site in Grand Isle and a list of things to bring for you and your dog will be sent after receipt of paid enrollment.
BOTC Tracking Test Results
About Tracking
You may have noticed your dog has a keen sense of smell – 100,000 times stronger than humans – and it makes him naturally “nosey.” That strong sense of smell is the reason why dogs are well suited for emergency search-and-rescue work. Other scent-careers include bomb and narcotics detection in Law Enforcement as well as medical alert service dogs.
So what do you do with your ever-nosey dog? Get him involved in AKC Tracking where he can sniff and smell to his heart’s content and demonstrate his natural ability to recognize and follow a scent. It’s a perfect way for you and your dog to enjoy many hours together, outside in the fresh air, honing his natural abilities.
For more information about AKC Tracking, you can go to the source! AKC’s Tracking Program.
Tracking at BOTC
All dogs have the ability to track. We have several expert BOTC members who are always willing to offer help to individuals who wish to start their dog in the AKC sport of tracking. Contact us for information.
Each year BOTC hosts a Spring TDX tracking test and a Combined TD/TDX tracking test. Check back for premiums in the spring.
