- Location
- Isle of Man
Hooray. A lady in the Isle of Man has organised a Mantrailing workshop with Dawn Heaton from Preston Dog Tricks. Coco & me are booked on it in August. So looking forward to having a go.
Mantrailing
- Thread starter edzbird
- Start date
- Location
- Herefordshire, UK
- Location
- Argyll & Bute, Scotland
Brilliant, Coco should be really good at it. Hope you have fun! x
Boogie
Moderator
- Location
- Manchester UK
Have fun, Tatze and I both love Mantrailing - I was much harder to train than her ‘tho!
Atemas
UK Tour Guide
- Location
- North Cambridgeshire
Bet it will be good fun
- Location
- South Wales
Oh fab! Pongo and I are just back from our latest session....it is SUCH good fun!
- Location
- SW London UK
We are going to an introduction man trailing session next weekend. Any tips or anything I should know beforehand.
- Location
- Andorra and Spain
From what I can gather, one sock under your trousers, one sock on top.
- Location
- South Wales
Yes, this is the approved fashion statement. Trust me.From what I can gather, one sock under your trousers, one sock on top.
- Location
- South Wales
Oh fantastic, @JES72 ! Hope you enjoy it. My top tips are:
1 Leave all dignity and sense of elegance behind.
2 Your dog knows what it's doing. Your job is to not fall over.
3 Take more rewards than you think you will need. Make it lovely, stinky, soft stuff that your dog will sell their soul for.
4 Wear gloves. I'm not kidding here.
5 Don't be surprised if your first session is quite basic with quite short trails.
6 Have fun!
Pongo wants to hear all about it!
xxx
1 Leave all dignity and sense of elegance behind.
2 Your dog knows what it's doing. Your job is to not fall over.
3 Take more rewards than you think you will need. Make it lovely, stinky, soft stuff that your dog will sell their soul for.
4 Wear gloves. I'm not kidding here.
5 Don't be surprised if your first session is quite basic with quite short trails.
6 Have fun!
Pongo wants to hear all about it!
xxx
- Location
- SW London UK
1. That’s not a problem - I don’t have any
2. There’s no doubt Homer will know what to do.
3. Cheese cheese and more cheese
4. Gloves !??
5. I hope so
6. I’m sure we will!
Hubby’s coming along too so should be able to take pics of us.
2. There’s no doubt Homer will know what to do.
3. Cheese cheese and more cheese
4. Gloves !??
5. I hope so
6. I’m sure we will!
Hubby’s coming along too so should be able to take pics of us.
- Location
- South Wales
You will be holding loops of a long line, the other end being attached to your sweet, calm, biddable dog who, knowing that someone has run off with his CHEESE will adopt a sympathetic, gentle trot allowing you to manage that long, thin and tangly line elegantly and with poise, playing it out and drawing it back in again to maintain a soft but constant tension without restricting your dog or dragging on the ground.
Or....like me, you will end up with rope burns on your fingers as the line is ripped through your hands with half a ton of wildly excited Labrador in delightedly hot pursuit of CHHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSEEEEEEE...
Just sayin'.
- Location
- South Wales
Hooray! Can't wait!
- Location
- SW London UK
Sock
Thanks for the tip. Im sure Homer will be jumping up and down round me in circles mugging my pockets. “He’s got cheese mum where’s MY cheese?!!?”
- Location
- South Wales
Hee hee! If they do it the same as us, it's even funnier than that.... the "runner" shows Homer the tub with HIS CHEESE in it, gets him all fired up with excitement about the cheese and then runs off squeaking "come and get your cheese, Homer, come on...!" or something similar as she disappears off behind a tree.
Pongo was just overcome with joy...best game EVER. (But I think you can imagine why I wished I'd had gloves that first time....)
- Location
- SW London UK
I can’t wait
- Location
- Isle of Man
Oh you will LOVE it, and trust us, Homer WILL know what to do. At our weekend beginners not one dog failed to find their misper. Coco was the pulliest dog there and a tad distracted by wee, but he soon got back onto the job in hand.
Coco's new Mantrailing line arrived today. It has rubber oven through it.
Coco's new Mantrailing line arrived today. It has rubber oven through it.
- Location
- Andorra and Spain
Oooh, I'd talked about SAR with Natalie (she's going to train her puppy up to be a detection dog) and she sent me a list of organisations in the wider area. There is a mantrailing organisation who have a base about ninety minutes from here. They use their dogs for real-life tracking of missing people. I've dropped them a line to see if they do any training for newbies 
- Location
- SW London UK
We have just got home from a lovely morning. The trainers were really nice and not “funny dog people” as hubby was fearing. They completely ‘got’ Homer. The lady took one look at him and said kindly “he must have been a handful when he was younger!” Homer did really well but tended to use his sight more than scent but that was ok. The main focus was toget from A to B. Homer was really good with the other dogs too and waited patently for his turn.
So we might be back for more.
No pics this time
So we might be back for more.
No pics this time
