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Show Dislike for work can be caused by the following: The dog may be indisposed; depression during wind ( foehn) or as the result of foehn; too great demand made of the dog during condition training or during the exercises; other distractions. Note: Do not work with bitches in heat! 3. THE SCHOOL FOR ADVANCED DOGS For the leader. Technical duty schooling, which gives the dog an important prerequisite for detection successes. This is demonstrated under live conditions in the second course of the avalanche dog curriculum and should be handled in this way on location. For the dog. During the summer months: The same exercises as for the partly- trained dogs. During the winter months: Begin with the 4 stage system; then stage 5 with increases in exercise difficulty; schooling in search endurance ( large avalanche fields); searching for deep burials ( 2- 4 meters); search following troublesome approaches lasting a number of hours. Note: 1. Of course, care has to be taken that individual increases in difficulty of the exercises occur gradually. It i3 foolish to go directly from the easiest to the most difficult exercise. 2. Indispensable for the trained avalanche dog is continuing to strive for search endurance* The dog ought to find it easier to search during real search duty and be more successful there than during his training exercises. If the dog has become accustomed to the fact that he has to work ( search) for a longer period of time until he achieves success during his training exercises ( a delicacy), then he will do the same ( out of habit) in the actual case. If he is accustomed to easy and short search work ( spoiled), then prolonged searching will also displease him during his real missions. In that case, failure is usually unavoidable. Therefore, the training victims have to be buried deep and well at great, and even the greatest, distances ( search fields of approximately 100 meters or more; training victims buried in the uppermost part). - 33 - |