akc tracking

From the AKC: Tracking is a canine sport that demonstrates a dog's natural ability to recognize and follow a scent and is the foundation of canine search and rescue work. It involves training dogs to use their highly developed sense of smell to find lost humans or animals, detect drugs, bombs or other articles.

 A dog's sense of smell is 100,000 times stronger than a human's. It is said that dogs have 2 billion olfactory receptors, versus 40 million in humans.  

A dog can earn four AKC Tracking titles: Tracking Dog (TD), Tracking Dog Urban (TDU), Tracking Dog Excellent (TDX), Variable Surface Tracking (VST), and Champion Tracker (CT).  

OTAC Fabulous Fun Fact:  Since our first test in November 2020, we have had 57 PASSES!

TD    29

TDU 10

TDX 14

VST    4

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