German Shorthaired Pointer working for Lowland Search and Rescue 

I love this, you are right they read the book before we did I think! Keeping one step ahead of them is the joy of it. Hawkeye is probably counting the cheeses 😀. Btw you cant hide from a GPS either 🤣

Hi 666gwp, thats an interesting question .....Juno's handler says that Juno's body language when she is on birds is different from her body language when hunting human scent and he can easily call her off a bird/game scent point and with definate Q's quickly re-establish the human scent hunt. By always rewarding good work on human scent and because he has always ignored or discouraged work on birds, she too has learnt what is required. I guess it is a similar approach in our gundog work when we discourage in the early days, any points on 'skylarks' and the dog soon learns to pass over anything but game.

@@AyteeGSPs Hi Lucie, yes that makes sense, I am just impressed he has managed to do it 😂, might be with me being used to GWP but as you say even driven dog will quite easily ignore skylarks , black birds etc yet be on a mission for game. If a pointer is trained to ignore game is obviously a great asset for this job,natural great nose and can systematically cover lots of ground too. Great video and thanks for your reply 👍

Thanks Derek, awesome training too, all credit to owner Ian Danks