Tracking Dogs: Running Single Blinds | SOURCE Short Set

Bang bang! Welcome to our short set today. My name is Simon. I'm going to talk you guys through, uh, doing some testing and proof of concept. So we have knowns that we'll run in detection and tracking where We know where the track is laid or where the hide is placed. And then we also have single blinds and single, single blinds allow us the opportunity to assess the K-9 team. So the handler won't actually know where the hides are at. With our knowns, our knowns give the handler the opportunity to actually learn and read the dog and see how the dog reacts in odor. And gives him an intimate understanding of his dog. Once we finish out that phase, we move on to single blinds, where in the single blinds the handler doesn't know where the hides are at or where the decoy is at, and he has to work on reading his dog while, um, trainer that's assessing the team knows where the track is laid, and it gives us an opportunity to see how that team is doing. So we have a dog today that's come through for tracking, and we're kind of running this to more so to kind of test the dog. So I want to take the factor of the handler knowing where the track is at out of the picture and really see if this dog can truly track. So we're kind of running it as a sort of proof of concept. So if you guys join us on this one, we can check it out. That's our short set for today. If you guys got any questions, leave them in the comments. Um, check out our podcast as well, The Source, for our full-length episodes on Friday. And I hope to see you guys again next week. Thank you. Go!