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The articles we use for starting up the tracking training are normally small articles of metal, for example paper clips. The reason we don’t normally use pieces of Kong is that most of the dogs have done search development on those pieces and often associate them with searching rather than tracking. Some dogs don’t care at all but if we see any tendencies I switch to metal right away. This is how we introduce them in a small search exercise. To again avoid that the dogs gets stuck in searching w

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