By Ed Presnall - 2 Volume Set: Book - 226 Pages / Workbook - 130 Pages.

Are you looking for a new challenge for your tracking dog? Try VST!

This is the information you need to learn about Variable Surface Tracking (VST):
- The history of VST.
- The AKC requirements for a VST title.
- The theory of scent and how a dog uses it to track.
- The differences between TD, TDX, and VST.
- What "component training" is and how to use it to train your tracking dog. Breaking the complete track down into individual elements and teaching each challenge before putting together a complete track offers handler and dog the opportunity to perfect each element and assures a high rate of success.
- A step-by-step program that will help you and your dog become a successful VST team.
- How to map and evaluate your training process.

The workbook provides lesson plans and exercises using the various components. Sample training maps and tracking notes show you how to use the components in training and how to evaluate your progress. Together the book and the spiral-bound workbook provide a unified and highly successful training program. The book contains 255 B/W photographs and illustrations while the workbook contains 100 diagrams.

Ed Presnall is a technology consultant, trainer and tracking judge who spends much of his time teaching, training and writing about dogs. Ed has earned multiple VST titles with his dogs and has trained several other breeds and their handlers to their VST titles. As a multiple-award-winning member of the Dog Writers Association of America, his articles and stories are published in many dog-related magazines, newsletters and web sites.

Item Number: BK0225