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Considerations to the Process of Increasing the Success Rate of Scent Discriminating Hounds The hound’s ability to trail is not a matter of nature vs. nurture or genetics vs. training it’s a dynamic process of the contributing elements co-evolving from moment to moment. For example: multicomponent determinants such as, levels of health and fitness, the strength of the hounds ability and desire to follow his nose, his desire to learn, the shared task environments (the handlers abilities, scenting conditions, or terrain), and the way in which circumstances have been put together to facilitate coherence between the hound’s understanding, ability, and the environment. Continue reading Increasing the success rate of scent discrimination