Once mastered then back onto tracking by the animal. The fourth and last area to cover is motivation. Because of some problem which started for what ever reason that created the wall there is a good chance that it will affect the dogs motivation. As mentioned before this could be because of over training, progressing too fast, problems with aspects of the track, lack of success, handler frustration any number of things. To motivate a dog at this point in the training can be done by a number of different ways but most of them are just a change in the training routine that the dog views as a positive or in simple terms enjoys.
Fresh tracks is one of the simplest ways to motivate a dog.
When things are going wrong it feels like you are taking one step forward and two steps back. So you just reverse the steps and take two steps back to get one step forward. Shorter, fresher, easier tracks then when things are going well make the progression onto harder tracks slower than what you had been progressing at. You may use fresh tracks to help with getting distance out of a dog. This can be done two ways.