New Shed Hunting Partner!!

So, I finally decided to get a pup to train exclusively for sheddin... I have a yellow lab named "buck" that loves birds, but he doesnt get the whole antler thing. Altho he has found a few and goes with me everytime I go.. But this little girl is doing awesome already. We named her "Sitka" figured she better have a hunting name right??

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I did a lot of research on how they train drug dogs and have basically implemented my own program similar to that for antlers.. Ive had her for the about 2 weeks and from the first day she has been accustomed to finding antlers hidden thru the house in order to get her food. I do a simple hand command and say "find an antler". It took her about 3 days to really catch on. Now she immediately starts looking and searching when I give her the command. You should see how excited she gets when she sniffs it or sees an antler.

So far she just goes to the antler and steps on it and gets my attention by getting way excited.(I gotta work on getting her to bring it to me) but Im way excited to see her progression. She loves to play with them, but I try not to let her play with them too much, because I want her to remain excited about antlers..

Have any of you ever trained a dog to find antlers? What other methods have you used? I have looked at antlerdog.com but it was all very vague. Any reccomendations?? If you would like some help Id be happy to tell what has worked with her.. Im sure she will do excellent by the time next shed season rolls around..