Pierre Walshtrom
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Okay.
I'm mainly based, trained because of my civilian knowledge from my, I get my first German Shepherd when I was 12 years old.
And I have always had dogs.
I have an Australian silky terrier before that one.
But of course, my educations in my work have given me experience that I can use in the competition and opposite.
So, I mean, we have many service dogs who never come to the end because their tracking is so bad.
I mean, they're running around in the leech and they're losing the tracks too often.
So we can implement the curiosity, the sharpness from IGP for sure into the service work.
And you can definitely put in the drives and the concentrations from the mind searching or for the man searching.
into igp so of course you can balance these two also in the beginning of the training for sure yeah that is but we have tracked together you and me 2014 yeah of course of course yeah um and tracking is for me tracking is for me the number one art of the everything you know recently i made a
So open mouth or not open mouth or whatever, this high up or this high up, as soon as they do the work, he's positive, he tries to find everything.
It's very hard to take points away from it.
On the other hand, you can say, you can try to taste, smell a nice wine with open mouth.
We too.
We also.
But you can never have maximum attention with open mouth.
But still, as a judge, you can never take anything if the dog makes no mistakes.
Even if the mouth is closed or open.
I work a lot to teach my dogs to not open the mouth.
When I teach, when I'm working with them in summertime, it's very warm.