The Basic & Intermediate
Mantrailing Course is the beginning phase of scent discrimination and basic
trailing training. We recommend one trailing training day per week for at
least three months between courses
The Basic Course will
teach the new students the following K-9 trailing principles and expand on them
through demonstration and application:
1) Human scent detection,
collection and protection
2) Environmental and human impact on
scent
3) Standard trailing equipment for the dog and
handler
4) Basic dog reading 101- trailing dogs tricks and
traits
5) Basic trail laying- what you want from an
assistant
6) Scenting your dog and starting the trail
7)
Various soft surface trailing and the “alphabet”
8) High and hidden
finds
9) Motivation for detector and protections style
K-9’s
10) The effect of age on a trail
The Intermediate
Course is the next step in the trailing evolution and involves the
following steps:
1) Adding age and distance to the
trail
2) Distractions, human and animal
3) Water World-
rivers streams and lakes
4) Resting the K-9 and
restarting
5) Single scene, multiple suspect trails
6)
Split trails
7) Ghost trails-reading your dog when there is no
matching scent
8) Beginning hard surface trailing
9) K-9
Team basic tactics for safety
10) What trailing cases to work at this
point and when
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TTT’s Advanced Mantracker Course is the culmination of intensive
training that may take a year or more of actual work. We recommend one trailing
training day per week for six months, at minimum, utilizing all of the training
techniques learned above before attempting this course.
1) Extreme
hard surface trailing-city streets
2) Multiple dogs on one
trail
3) Protection dog as back-up
4) Gunfire
training
5) Basic tactical team work with the trailing
dog
6) K-9 Emergency first aid
7) Scent
line-ups
8) Proximity alerts
9)
Drop-trailing
10) Visual tracking
TTT offers all of our courses in several formats; Seminar, Weekly, and Off-Site
Training.
TTT seminars are generally four day, eight hour per day
courses held locally in Amador County. All lunches are included and are on the
training site to save training time. RV parking available, hotels are within
minutes of the training sites. Each seminar has a minimum of three K-9 team
minimum and a twelve K-9 team maximum. BBQ, certification, and award ceremony at
the end of the last training day.
The weekly training schedule is by far the most advantageous to K-9
unit administrators and ultimately the best method for learning. We recommend
that K-9 teams attend a weekly training session with TTT Instructors for one
month. Homework will be given to each team to study and practice between
training sessions. Certification is awarded for the successful completion of
each training phase.
Weekly Training Program cost-
$1,500.00
single student
$1,750.00 for two students $2,000.00 for up to four
students Off-site training can be conducted upon request. The fee schedule
will vary with location, travel, student number, and other logistics. Please
call us at your convenience to discuss TTT coming to you!
Tactical Trailing Courses 
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